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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Quad Cities, IA

July 27, 1993Dubuque County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1993, 9:19 PM CDT for Dubuque County, Iowa. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1993, 9:19 PM CDT (02:19 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1993, 9:46 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Dubuque County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 317 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1993-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 262 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1993-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNDelaware56 min
Jul 27, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNJones55 min
Jul 27, 10:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNJones44 min
Jul 28, 12:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNScott53 min
Jul 28, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNMuscatine61 min
Jul 28, 2:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNHenry35 min

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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.