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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Des Moines, IA

May 7, 1988Jasper County, Marion County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1988, 3:27 PM CDT for Jasper County, Marion County, Iowa. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1988, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1988, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jasper County, IA, Marion 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 7, 2:53 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
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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.