Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1986, 7:35 PM CDT for Clinton County, Scott County, Iowa. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1986, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1986, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clinton County, IA, Scott County, IA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1379 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMLI 090035 SVRMLI IAC163-045-090100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOLINE IL 735 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EXTREME EAST IOWA...NORTHERN SCOTT AND CLINTON AT 730PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WHEATLAND IOWA..ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE QUAD CITIES THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF STRONG WINDS AND SMALL STRAEM FLOODING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING: DAMAGING WINDS OF 58 MPH OR MORE..HAIL 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER. TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOWLAND AND URBAN FLOODING MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE. ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR REPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEAT,HER SERVICE. BOBLETT
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 50 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, 1 hour 15 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Scott | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Muscatine, Scott | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.