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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Des Moines, IA

May 31, 1987Wayne County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1987, 7:57 PM CDT for Wayne County, Iowa. It was in force for 23 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 1987, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1987, 8:20 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne 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, May 31, 2:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
240 PM CDT SUN MAY 31 1987

....A SSVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF EASTERN IOWA
UNTIL 900 PM TONIGHT...

AT 230 PM...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEAST
...SOUTHWEST...AND WEST CENTRAL IOWA.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED 20
MILES SOUTHWEST OF OTTUMWA...40 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMONI...AND NEAR
GUTHRIE CENTER...WHICH IS 40 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES.

THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

ALSO...ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE OVER PARTS OF
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST IOWA.

THE AREA OF SHOWERS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

MILLER

Special weather statement, May 31, 6:58 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Monroe	37 min
Jun 1, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Winnebago	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1987 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.