Alert archive / Iowa / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1991, 10:59 PM CDT for Story County, Iowa. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1991, 10:59 PM CDT (03:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1991, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Story County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDSM 040358 FFWDSM IAC169-040800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1058 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL IOWA ...STORY COUNTY A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF STORY COUNTY. PERISTENT THUNDERSTORM CONTINUE TO DUMP COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF RAIN OVER THE AREA. ESTIMATE RAINFALL TOTALS SO FAR RANGED FROM TWO TO FOUR INCHES SINCE 5 PM. LITTLE MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM HAS OCCURRED DURING EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING WESTWARD INTO THE AMES AREA. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF STREET AND SECONDARY ROADS WERE FLOODED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.@ MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MCQUIRTER
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 3, 8:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
IAZALL-040130-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
740 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1991
AT 730 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE WEST
HALF OF IOWA...INCLUDING A NUMBER OF AREAS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS. THE
RAIN WAS MOSTLY WEST OF A LINE FROM OTTUMWA TO ESTERVILLE. VERY HEAVY
RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE
OF THESE STORMS.{{}
THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN NEVADA AND ELDORA...OR
25 TO 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES. RAINS IN THIS AREA HAVE
PERSISTED FOR SEVERAL HOURS...WITH SOME FLOODING REPORTED IN THE AREA.
VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE ALSO REPORTED IN THE ESTERVILLE AREA OF NORTHWEST
IOWA. THE RAINS WERE ALSO ACOMPANIED WITH PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...AND
MINOR STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS...AMD STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE REPORTED
NEAR MANNING. A BARN WAS ALSO REPORTED DESTROYED BY CARROLL COUNTY
SHERIFF.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
SCOTTSpecial weather statement, Jun 3, 8:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
IAZALL-040230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 840 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1991 AT 830 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN MUCH OF NORTHWEST IOWA...AND PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA. SCATTERED AREAS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE INCLUDED IN THESE AREAS. IN NORTHWEST IOWA...THE STORMS WERE MOSTLY WEST OF A LINE FROM COON RAPIDS...60 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES...TO ESTERVILLE...AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM COON RAPIDS TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX CITY. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN ROCKWELL CITY AND SAC CITY...ABOUT 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF DES MOINES. IN CENTRAL IOWA...THE RAINS WERE IN AN AREA ABOUT 60 MILES IN DIAMETER ...AND WITHIN A 35 MILE RADIUS OF STORY CITY. THE RAIN HAVE CONTINUED FOR SEVERAL HOURS IN THIS AREA...WITH FLOODING REPORTED IN THE AREA. A FEW ISOLATED AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO LOCATED IN SOUTHCENTRAL IOWA IN THE OTTUMWA AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SCOTT
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 9:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
IAZALL-040230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 940 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1991 AT 930 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN MUCH OF NORTHWEST IOWA...AND PARTS OF CENTRAL IOWA. VERY HEAVY RAINFALLS HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS...CAUSING URBAN FLOODING IN ESTERVILLE AND IN THE STORY CITY AND ELDORA AREAS. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN ROCKWELL CITY AND CARROLL...ABOUT 50 TO 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF DES MOINES...AND IN THE STORY CITY AND NEVADA AREAS...35 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES. THE RAINS IN CENTRAL IOWA HAVE CONTINUED FOR SEVERAL HOURS...AND RAIN FALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES ARE EXPECTED IN THESE AREAS. THE STORMS IN NORTHWEST IOWA WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE STORMS IN CENTRAL IOWA WERE DRIFTING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. SCOTT
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 10:49 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
IAZALL-040430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1040PM CDT MON JUN 3 1991 AT 1030PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN MUCH OF NORTHWEST IOWA...AND PARTS OF CENTRAL IOWA. VERY HEAVY RAINFALLS HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS...CAUSING URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IN MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST IOWA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN CENTRAL IOWA NEAR NEVADA... ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES...AND ALSO NEAR JEFFERSON AND LAKE CITY...35 TO 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF DES MOINES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM JUST EAST OF ESTERVILLE TO ROCKWELL CITY. T4HE STORMS IN NORTHWEST IOWA WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE STORMS IN CENTRAL IOWA WERE DRIFTING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. SCOTT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Emmet | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Carroll | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Webster | 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.