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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1986, 6:57 PM CDT for Cedar County, Iowa. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1986, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1986, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cedar County, IA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 5:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DUBUQUE IA 545 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 1986 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH JONES COUNTY IN EASTCENTRAL IOWA... AT 540 PM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO STRENGTHEN AS THEY MOVED EAST THOUGH JONES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST IOWA. LOCATION OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF JONES COUNTY..10 MILES SOUTH AND EAST OF ANAMOSA..45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DUBUQUE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND..HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH. PERSONS IN JONES COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE INTENSE STORMS AND IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED..TAKE COVER IMMEDIOATELY. KOWALSKI
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 6:20 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL 620 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 1986 ...HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS EASTERN IOWA AND INTO NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 615 PM..RADAR SHOWED A 25 MILE WIDE BAND OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF CEDAR RAPIDS TO NORTH OF OF CLINTON..BOTH IN IOWA TO SOUTH OF STERLING ILLINOIS. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS.. SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THIS COUPLED WITH THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WILL CAUSE SOME SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOODING IN SOUTHERN CEDAR..NORTHERN CLINTON AND SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTIES IN EASTERN IOWA AND SOUTHERN WHITESIDE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS. PERSONS ALONG STREAMS SUBJECT TO RAPID RISES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND./WIGGINS
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.