Alert archive / Iowa / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1990, 8:38 PM CDT for 4 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1990, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1990, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Appanoose County, IA, Davis County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Wapello 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 316 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 flash flood 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, Jun 19, 6:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
IAZALL-200030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IOWA 640 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WEST HALF OF IOWA UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING... ...A FLASH FLOOD/FLOOD WATCH FOR EAST AND SOUTH IOWA TONIGHT... AT 631 PM CDT...AN INTENSE STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST OF WINTERSET...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINTERSET. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND COULD ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WIND. SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH...PEOPLE IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. OVER THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL IOWA AND SOUTHEAST IOWA...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP...IN A 35 MILE WIDE AREA... CENTERED FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF OTTUMWA...TO 40 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES. THE STORMS WERE ALL MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. WPM/CAB
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 6:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
IAZALL-200030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...COR FIRST PARA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IOWA 640 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WEST HALF OF IOWA UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING... ...A FLASH FLOOD/FLOOD WATCH FOR EAST AND SOUTH IOWA TONIGHT... AT 631 PM CDT...AN INTENSE STORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST OF WINTERSET...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DES MOINES. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND COULD ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WIND. SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH...PEOPLE IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. OVER THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL IOWA AND SOUTHEAST IOWA...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP...IN A 35 MILE WIDE AREA... CENTERED FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF OTTUMWA...TO 40 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES. THE STORMS WERE ALL MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. WPM/CAB
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 7:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
IAZALL-200100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IOWA 720 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WEST HALF OF IOWA UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ABOUT THE NORTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF IOWA... ...A FLASH FLOOD/FLOOD WATCH FOR EAST AND SOUTH IOWA TONIGHT... AT 700 PM CDT...SCATTERED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN A 15 MILE WIDE AREA...FROM 25 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF DES MOINES TO 15 MILES NORTH OF OTTUMWA. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM JUST NORTH OF WINTERSET TO JUST NORTH OF INDIANOLA ...AND JUST NORTHEAST OF OSKALOOSA. ANOTHER INTENSE STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES. . SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH...PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING EXCESSIVE RAINFALL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND COULD PR:ODUCE BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WIND. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. WPM
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 7:40 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
IAZALL-200130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IOWA 740 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WEST HALF OF IOWA UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ABOUT THE NORTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF IOWA... ...A FLASH FLOOD/FLOOD WATCH FOR EAST AND SOUTH IOWA TONIGHT... AT 730 PM CDT...SCATTERED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN A 25 MILE WIDE AREA...FROM 15 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF DES MOINES TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF OTTUMWA. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF WINTERSET TO JUST NORTH OF INDIANOLA ...AND JUST NORTH OF OTTUMWA. SEVERAL INTENSE STORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES...BETWEEN DES MOINES AND NEWTON. . SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH...PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING EXCESSIVE RWAINFALL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND COULD PRODUCE BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WIND. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. GGF
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 8:12 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
IAZ002-003-007-200200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WATERLOO IA 810 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALL OF TONIGHT... AT 805 PM CDT SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST IOWA GENERALLY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 18. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHERN AND SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. ALL PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN MINNESOTA SHOULD BE REACHING THE IOWA BORDER BY 830 OR 900 PM CDT AND CONTINUE MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 8:13 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
IAZALL-200200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IOWA 810 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WEST HALF OF IOWA UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ABOUT THE NORTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF IOWA... ...A FLASH FLOOD/FLOOD WATCH FOR EAST AND SOUTH IOWA TONIGHT... AT 800 PM CDT...A NARROW BAND OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 7 MILES SOUTH OF DES MOINES TO OSKALOOSA...20 MILES NORTHWEST OF OTTUMWA. THE LARGEST STORM WAS NORTH OF KNOXVILLE OVER RED ROCK LAKE. THE STORMS IN THIS BAND WILL PRODUCE EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINS. LOW LYING AREAS IN THE VICINITY OF THE STORMS WILL FLOOD QUICKLY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED HIGHWAYS...ONLY A FEW INCHES OF FAST RUNNING WATER WILL SWEEP AWAY A VEHICLE. ALSO THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HIGH WINDS AND HAIL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. DLF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Marion, Warren | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Madison | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Keokuk, Mahaska | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Washington | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jones | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Jefferson, Van Buren | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Marion | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Winneshiek | 42 min |
| Jun 19, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke, Union | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur, Ringgold | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Keokuk, Mahaska | 62 min |
| Jun 19, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Allamakee | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 9:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Wayne | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 9:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Ringgold, Union | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Decatur, Ringgold | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Warren | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Decatur | 37 min |
| Jun 19, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wayne | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose | 29 min |
| Jun 19, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Keokuk, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Marion | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.