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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Des Moines, IA

June 13, 1990Carroll County, Greene County, Guthrie County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1990, 2:28 AM CDT for Carroll County, Greene County, Guthrie County, Iowa. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1990, 2:28 AM CDT (07:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1990, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Carroll County, IA, Greene County, IA, Guthrie County, IA

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 2:45 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50Greene, IA

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 nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1990-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1990-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 227 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
349 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDSM 130728
SVRDSM
IAC027-073-077-130800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
228 AM CDT WED JUN 13 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA
          ...SOUTHEASTERN CARROLL...SOUTHERN GREENE
          ...NORTHERN GUTHRIE
 
AT 225 AM CDT...WEATHER RADAR IN DES MOINES INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEAST CAROLL COUNTY...ABOUT 60 MILES NORTHWEST
OF DES MOINES.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL MOVE INTO THE
TOWNS OF COON RAPIDS...BAYARD...BAGLEY...COOPER...AND SCRANTON BETWEEN
230 AND 250 AM THIS MORNING.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAP^IDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
SCHUMACHER

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, Jun 12, 11:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
IAZALL-130530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1110 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990

...A TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN IOWA UNTIL 1 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING...

AT 1100 PM...ISOLATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWEST AND
NORTHEAST IOWA.  ONE STORM WAS 60 MILES WEST OF MASON CITY NEAR
EMMETSBURG AND THE OTHER NEAR CRESCO...DUE NORTH OF WATERLOO.  ALONG
WITH THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL...HIGH WINDS AND HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED.
LOWER LYING AREAS...SUCH AS ROADSIDE DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES WILL
LIKELY EXPERIENCE FLOODING.

ALSO...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS THE
NORTH QUARTER OF THE STATE.

THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN NEBRASKA WILL BE ENTERING THE SIOUX
CITY AREA NEAR MIDNIGHT.

KS
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 11:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
IAZALL-130530-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1140 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN IOWA UNTIL 1 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING...

AT 1130 PM...ISOLATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST IOWA.  ONE STORM WAS 50 MILES WEST OF MASON CITY NEAR ALGONA
AND THE OTHER NEAR THE IOWA/MINNESOTA BORDER NORTH OF WATERLOO.  ALONG
WITH THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL...HIGH WINDS AND SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED.
LOWER LYING AREAS...SUCH AS ROADSIDE DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES WILL LIKELY
EXPERIENCE FLOODING.

ALSO...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM NORTH-
WEST INTO THE NORTHEAST COUNTIES.

THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN NEBRASKA WILL CONTINUE TO ENTER WEST
CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST IOWA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.

KS
Local storm report, Jun 13, 12:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1235 AM CDT WED JUN 13 1990

WEATHER EVENTS OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF THE 12TH

    ...ALL TIME IN CDT...

TIME            EVENT

320 PM        TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF ANITA.  70 MPH WINDS AT
              ANITA. /CASS COUNTY/

330 PM        TORNADO AT MASSENA /CASS COUNTY/

355 PM        TREES DOWN AND POWER LINES DOWN IN THE VICINITY OF
              BRIDGEWATER /ADAIR COUNTY/

436 PM        PEA SIZE HAIL AT JOHNSTON /POLK COUNTY/

443 PM        50-55 MPH WINDS IN ANKENY /POLK COUNTY/

448 PM        PEA SIZE HAIL IN SOUTHEAST ANKENY /POLK COUNTY/

453 PM        1/2 INCH OF RAIN IN 23 MINUTES ALONG WITH STRONG WINDS
              DOWNED 2 INCH DIAMETER SAPLING IN ANKENY. /POLK COUNTY/

458 PM        PEA SIZE HAIL IN BONDURANT /POLK COUNTY/

508 PM        1.1 INCHES OF RAIN IN SAYLORVILLE IN ABOUT 1/2 HOUR.
              /POLK COUNTY/

509 PM        50 MPH WIND GUSTS BETWEEN RHODES AND MELBOURNE/MARSHALL
              COUNTY/

510 PM        6-8 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWN AND TOP OF RADIO TOWER
              BENT.

515 PM        56 MPH WIND REPORTED AT MARSHALLTOWN/MARSHALL COUNTY/

637 PM        MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT DAYTON /WEBSTER COUNTY/

728 PM        PEA SIZE HAIL AT DOWS /WRIGHT COUNTY/

740 PM        TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF DOWS IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST WRIGHT
              COUNTY.

747 PM        PEA SIZE HAIL AT EAGLE GROVE /WRIGHT COUNTY/

902 PM        PEA SIZE HAIL AT CLEAR LAKE /CERRO GORDO COUNTY/

950-955 ON    60 MPH WINDS AT MILFORD /DICKINSON COUNTY/

1010 PM       60 MPH WINDS AND HAIL A LITTLE LARGER THAN THAN PEA
              SIZE AT SPIRIT LAKE /DICKINSON COUNTY/

SCHUMACHER
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 12:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
IAZALL-130630-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1235 AM CDT TUE JUN 13 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR THE NORWEST THIRD OF IOWA UNTIL 6 AM MORNING...

AT 1225 AM...AN ISOLATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER NORTH-
WEST IOWA...40 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY...OR JUST WEST OF
STORM LAKE.   THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.  BY
130 AM IT WILL BE APPROACHING THE POCAHANTAS AREA.  IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU WILL EXPERIENCE EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINS
...HAIL AND STRONG WINDS.   THE RAINS FROM THIS STORM WILL LIKELY
CAUSE THE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.

ANOTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED IN EASTERN NEBRASKA.  THIS
STORM WILL BE CROSSING THE MISSOURI RIVER IN THE VICINITY OF ONAWA BY
1 AM.

OTHERWISE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHWEST AND
NORTH CENTRAL IOWA.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 40 MILE WIDE
BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM SIOUX CITY TO THE MINNESOTA BORDER NORTH
OF MASON CITY. ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES
AN HOUR.

DLF
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
IAZ004-009-005-130645

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
120 AM CDT WED JUN 13 1990

VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN PARTS OF MONONA AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES
AT AROUND 115 AM CDT.  THESE STORMS HAD PRODUCED WINDS OF 50 MILES AN
HOUR IN THE TOWN OF UTE...AND 50 TO 60 MILES AN HOUR IN THE TOWN OF
CHARTER OAK.  THESE TOWNS ARE LOCATED ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SIOUX
CITY.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 TO 35 MI+LES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF DENISON...
SHOULD EXPECT STRONG WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS UNTIL AROUND 2AM CDT.

ADAMS
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:50 AM CDT, 38 minutes before
IAZALL-130730-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
135 AM CDT TUE JUN 13 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR MOST OF THE NORTHWEST HALF OF IOWA TILL 6 AM...

AT 129 AM...AN ISOLATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WITH 50 TO 60 MILE AN
HOUR WINDS...EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN AND  SMALL HAIL WAS
INDICATED IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA...NEAR DENNISON.    THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR CARROLL BY 230 AM.

THIS STORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT
COVERED MOST OF THE NORTHWEST THIRD OF THE STATE.   THE LARGEST STORMS
WERE LOCATED FROM JUST NORTH OF COUNCIL BLUFFS TO EAST OF SIOUX CITY
...AND NEAR ALGONA AND NORTHWEST OF MASON CBITY.

ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

DLF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXHardin13 min
Jun 12, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXHamilton44 min
Jun 12, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWright44 min
Jun 12, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXMitchell69 min
Jun 12, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXButler, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin35 min
Jun 12, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXChickasaw60 min
Jun 12, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXFloyd37 min
Jun 12, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWinneshiek56 min
Jun 12, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXFayette41 min
Jun 12, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDickinson28 min
Jun 12, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXHoward57 min
Jun 12, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXChickasaw27 min
Jun 12, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAllamakee40 min
Jun 12, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWinneshiek43 min
Jun 13, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCass18 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

Sources

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.