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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Des Moines, IA

July 9, 19934 counties in Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1993, 1:36 AM CDT for 4 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1993, 1:36 AM CDT (06:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1993, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Appanoose County, IA, Davis County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Wapello County, IA

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, Jul 8, 11:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 12:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 12:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 12:39 AM CDT, 57 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 12:40 AM CDT, 56 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 12:46 AM CDT, 50 minutes before
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        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
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        Please try again in a few minutes.
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        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXCrawford43 min
Jul 8, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXCarroll48 min
Jul 8, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXCarroll, Greene, Guthrie55 min
Jul 8, 8:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXCarroll, Crawford, Greene4 hr
Jul 8, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll, Crawford19 min
Jul 8, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone36 min
Jul 8, 9:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXBoone, Story4 hr
Jul 8, 9:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXDallas, Guthrie4 hr
Jul 8, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXChickasaw29 min
Jul 8, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Dallas38 min
Jul 8, 10:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas, Polk27 min
Jul 8, 10:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXBlack Hawk3 hr
Jul 8, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXBuchanan20 min
Jul 8, 11:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXJasper, Polk5 hr
Jul 8, 11:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXMarshall5 hr
Jul 8, 11:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAudubon, Carroll, Crawford35 min
Jul 8, 11:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAdams, Cass, Taylor35 min
Jul 8, 11:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXBuchanan3 hr
Jul 9, 12:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAdair, Ringgold, Union28 min
Jul 9, 12:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXGreene, Guthrie28 min
Jul 9, 12:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXCarroll, Greene4 hr
Jul 9, 12:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXAudubon4 hr
Jul 9, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDallas, Madison, Polk, Warren27 min
Jul 9, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXClarke, Decatur27 min
Jul 9, 1:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXBlack Hawk119 min
Jul 9, 1:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXClarke, Decatur, Lucas, Wayne25 min
Jul 9, 1:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXJasper, Marion, Polk25 min
Jul 9, 1:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWarren25 min
Jul 9, 1:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXBlack Hawk23 min
Jul 9, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXMahaska, Poweshiek54 min
Jul 9, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXJasper49 min
Jul 9, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXJefferson, Keokuk, Van Buren, Washington49 min
Jul 9, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXIowa, Johnson49 min
Jul 9, 10:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXStory6 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.