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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Quad Cities, IA

May 8, 1988Jones County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1988, 12:58 PM CDT for Jones County, Iowa. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 1988, 12:58 PM CDT (17:58 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1988, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Whole counties

County Jones 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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1404 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 8, 8:19 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 2:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Cedar	35 min
May 8, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Louisa, Muscatine	37 min
May 8, 3:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Jones	47 min
May 8, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque	48 min
May 8, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar, Muscatine	41 min
May 8, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henry, Louisa	41 min
May 8, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Scott	34 min
May 8, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Clinton	42 min
May 8, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Clinton, Scott	26 min
May 8, 3:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Mercer, Rock Island	46 min
May 8, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henry, Whiteside	67 min
May 8, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Jo Daviess	44 min
May 8, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Rock Island, Whiteside	34 min
May 8, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henry	27 min
May 8, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Whiteside	30 min
May 8, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Grant	44 min
May 8, 3:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Grant	41 min
May 8, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Lafayette	34 min

Nearby

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

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.