Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Des Moines, IA

Issued

May 8, 1988, 1:24 PM CDT (18:24 UTC)

Expired

May 8, 1988, 2:00 PM CDT

In force

36 min

Issued by

NWS Des Moines, IA

Area

Whole counties

County Black Hawk County, IA

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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 text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

In the hours before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WATERLOO IA
735 AM CST SUN MAY 8 1988

AT 730 AM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT
30 MILES WIDE FROM AMES TO MARSHALLTOWN TO NEAR WATERLOO.
HEAVIEST STORM WES NEARING WATERLOO AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT
45 MILES AN HOUR.

PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...STRONG SURFACE WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINS CAN
BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OFF THESE STORMS.
JOHNSON

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.