Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1991, 6:39 PM CDT for Carroll County, Crawford County, Iowa. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1991, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1991, 7:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, IA, Crawford County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 672 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
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 26, 3:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Apr 26, 3:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
IAZALL-262035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 255 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991 AT 235 PM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE NORTHERN TWO TIERS OF IOWAS COUNTIES...FROM ESTHERVILLE TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUKON...WAUKON IS 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF DUBUQUE. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. FILLBACH/BARLOW
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 4:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
IAZALL-262235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 440 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN IOWA UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY EVENING. AT 430 PM...THERE WAS A SMALL RAIN SHOWER LOCATED OVER WEST CENTRAL IOWA...ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SIOUX CITY. THIS SHOWER WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THERE WILL BE OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM?S ENTERING WESTERN IOWA... FROM EASTERN NEBRASKA DURING THE NEXT HOUR...BETWEEN OMAHA/COUNCIL BLUFFS AND SIOUX CITY. JAK/WPM
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 5:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
IAZALL-262235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND IOWA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 508 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN IOWA UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY EVENING. WIDELY SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS CONTINUED TO SPREAD INTO SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL IOWA. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE OUTLOOK THROUGH 6PM...THE SKY WILL REMAIN CLOUDY TO MOSTLYn CLOUDY STATEWIDE. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD INTO SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL IOWA. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WIND...AS WELL AS FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. JAK/WPM
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 5:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
IAZALL-262335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 534 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN IOWA UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS FRIDAY EVENING. AT 527 PM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS CONTINUED OVER EXTREME WEST CENTRAL IOWA...BETWEEN COUNCIL BLUFFS/OMAHA AND SIOUX CITY. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. JAK/WPM
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:06 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
IAZALL-270035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND IOWA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 605 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF WESTERN IOWA UNTIL MIDNIGHT THIS FRIDAY EVENING. NUMEROUS SHOWERS CONTINUED OVER WEST CENTRAL IOWA...IN A 45 MILE WIDE AREA...CENTERED FROM 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY... TO 15 MILES NORTH OF COUNCIL BLUFFS. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE OUTLOOK THROUGH 7 PM...IS FOR CONTINUED INCREASING COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER ABOUT THE WEST ONE-THIRD OF IOWA. THE SKY WILL REMAIN MOSTLY CLOUDY STATEWIDE. JAK/WPM
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.