Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1994, 8:34 PM CDT for Cass County, Iowa. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 1994, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cass County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 715 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDSM 150135 SVRDSM IAC029-150215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 834 PM CDT THU APR 14 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST IOWA ...SOUTHWESTERN CASS COUNTY AT 832 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST CASS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS ABOUT 40 MILES EAST OF COUNCIL BLUFFS AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE COMMUMITIES OF LEWIS...WIOTA...AND ANITA. IT SHOULD ARRIVE AT ANITA AROUND 900 PM. PLEASE REPORT INSTANCES OF SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BEd ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITONS. CHB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Taylor | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Cass | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marshall | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Grundy | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Madison, Union | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas, Guthrie | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 52 min |
| Apr 14, 10:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Adair | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Buchanan | 51 min |
| Apr 14, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas, Polk | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Tama | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 11:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Story | 27 min |
| Apr 14, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 26 min |
| Apr 14, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marshall | 19 min |
| Apr 14, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Grundy | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Van Buren | 28 min |
| Apr 15, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Linn | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 21 min |
| Apr 15, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Buchanan | 29 min |
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.