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Flash Flood Warning 110, NWS Des Moines, IA

August 18, 1993Greene County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 1993, 3:38 PM CDT for Greene County, Iowa. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 18, 1993, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 1993, 6:35 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Area: Whole counties

County Greene County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -153 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Aug 18, 2:54 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 18, 2:55 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 18, 3:01 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 18, 3:18 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

IAC153-182115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
319 PM CDT WED AUG 18 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING AROUND DES MOINES...BUT SEVERE
STORMS ARE MORE LIKELY AFTER 4 PM...

AT 315 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD POPPED UP ACROSS PARTS OF THE
DES MOINES METRO AREA...MAINLY ACROSS EAST SECTIONS.

FURTHER TO THE WEST...ABOUT 35 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES...A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.

IT IS LIKELY THAT THESE STORMS WILL HOLD TOGETHER AND REACH THE
DES MOINES METRO AREA BETWEEN 415 AND 445 PM THIS AFTERNOON.

IF YOU PLAN ANY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES DURING THIS TIME...YOU SHOULD
KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY...KEEP INFORMED TO THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION...AND KEEP WITHIN A SHORT DISTANCE OF A SAFE SHELTER.

FELDT

Special weather statement, Aug 18, 3:19 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

IAC153-182115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
319 PM CDT WED AUG 18 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING AROUND DES MOINES...BUT SEVERE
STORMS ARE MORE LIKELY AFTER 4 PM...

AT 315 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD POPPED UP ACROSS PARTS OF THE
DES MOINES METRO AREA...MAINLY ACROSS EAST SECTIONS.

FURTHER TO THE WEST...ABOUT 35 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES...A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.

IT IS LIKELY THAT THESE STORMS WILL HOLD TOGETHER AND REACH THE
DES MOINES METRO AREA BETWEEN 415 AND 445 PM THIS AFTERNOON.

IF YOU PLAN ANY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES DURING THIS TIME...YOU SHOULD
KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY...KEEP INFORMED TO THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION...AND KEEP WITHIN A SHORT DISTANCE OF A SAFE SHELTER.

FELDT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 5:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Iowa	3 hr
Aug 18, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Johnson, Linn	22 min
Aug 18, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	54 min
Aug 18, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon, Carroll	53 min
Aug 18, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Sac	46 min
Aug 18, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Greene	46 min
Aug 18, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Greene, Guthrie	51 min
Aug 18, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair	34 min
Aug 18, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Webster	47 min
Aug 18, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Dallas, Madison	46 min
Aug 18, 3:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Greene	3 hr
Aug 18, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Polk, Story	64 min
Aug 18, 4:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Polk	4 hr
Aug 18, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Warren	50 min
Aug 18, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Keokuk, Mahaska	38 min
Aug 18, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Marion	43 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Iowa, 1993 Every flash flood warning in 1993

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.