Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 1986, 3:55 PM CDT for Clarke County, Lucas County, Iowa. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 1986, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 1986, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clarke County, IA, Lucas County, IA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 4:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lucas, IA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 287 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams, Taylor | 55 min |
| Sep 22, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold, Union | 53 min |
| Sep 22, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams, Taylor | 50 min |
| Sep 22, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke, Decatur, Union | 41 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.