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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Quad Cities, IA

July 8, 1986Cedar County, Iowa

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.