Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1991, 6:06 PM CDT for Marshall County, Story County, Iowa. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1991, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1991, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marshall County, IA, Story County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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, Apr 8, 4:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
IAZALL-082220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER UPDATE FOR IOWA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 419 PM CDT MON APR 8 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN IOWA THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 9 PM CDT... AT 410 PM...SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM SOUTHWEST INTO NORTHEAST IOWA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A 20 MILE WIDE BAND EXTENDING FROM 30 MILES EAST OF COUNCIL BLUFFS NEAR OAKLAND...TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF WATERLOO. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND STORMS OCCURRING IN A 70 MILE WIDE BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF IOWA...TO NORTHEAST IOWA 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF WATERLOO. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE ENTIRE AREA WAS DRIFTING EAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. JAK
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 4:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
IAZALL-082245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 445 PM CDT MON APR 8 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN IOWA THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 9 PM CDT... AT 430 PM...SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM SOUTHWEST INTO NORTHEAST IOWA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A 20 MILE WIDE BAND EXTENDING FROM 25 MILES EAST OF COUNCIL BLUFFS... BETWEEN OAKLAND AND RED OAK...TO THE STORY CITY AND JEWELL AREAS... 40 TO 50 MILES NORTH OF DES MOINES...TO NEAR WATERLOO. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE DETECTED 25 TO 35 MILES WEST OF LAMONI IN SOUTHWEST IOWA... AND ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DUBUQUE. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND DAMAGING WIND. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE SYSTEM OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED MUCH OF THE CENTRAL THIRD OF IOWA FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE STATE TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER. MOST OF THE SHOWERS WERE EAST OF ALINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COUNCIL BLUFFS TO THE MASON CITY AREA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...WHILE THE AREA OF SHOWERS WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. MILLER/KALLMAN
Local storm report, Apr 8, 4:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:21 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
IAZALL-082315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER UPDATE FOR IOWA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 520 PM CDT MON APR 8 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN IOWA THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 9 PM CDT... AT 510 PM...SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM SOUTHWEST INTO NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST IOWA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A CLUSTER OVER SOUTHWEST IOWA...FROM 20 TO 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DES MOINES...NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF WINTERSET AND AFTON. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A 20 MILE WIDE BAND THAT STRETCHED FROM 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COUNCIL BLUFFS NORTH TO THE ATLANTIC AND CUMBERLAND AREAS...50 MILES EAST OF COUNCIL BLUFFS...THEN NORTHEAST TO NEAR GRUNDY CENTER...25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WATERLOO. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND DAMAGING WIND. / THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE SYSTEM OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED MUCH OF THE CENTRAL THIRD OF IOWA FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...WHILE THE AREA OF SHOWERS WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. MILLER/KALL3MAN
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:47 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
IAZALL-082345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER UPDATE FOR IOWA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 545 PM CDT MON APR 8 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ...SOUTHEAST...AND EASTERN IOWA UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS MONDAY EVENING... AT 530 PM...SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHWEST ...SOUTH CENTRAL...CENTRAL...AND NORTHEAST IOWA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A 10 MILE WIDE BAND FROM 55 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COUNCIL BLUFFS...NEAR CORNING...TO 50 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES...NEAR ADAIR. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A 10 TO 30 MILE WIDE BAND FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF DES MOINES...TO 15 MILES WEST OF WATERLOO. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL... AND DAMAGING WIND. THESE STORMS WERE PART A LARGE SYSTEM OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST IOWA. THE SHOWERS WERE IN A 75 TO 100 MILE WIDE BAND THAT WAS EAST OF A LINE FROM 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COUNCIL BLUFFS...TO THE LAKE CITY AREA...70 MILES NORTHWEST OF DES MOINES...TO THE MASON CITY VICINITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...WHILE THE SHOWERS WERE DRIFTOING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. MILLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 11:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Carroll | 42 min |
| Apr 8, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Buchanan | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 36 min |
| Apr 8, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marshall, Story | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991
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.