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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Des Moines, IA

April 25, 1994Chickasaw County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1994, 10:35 AM CDT for Chickasaw County, Iowa. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 1994, 10:35 AM CDT (15:35 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 1994, 11:11 AM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Chickasaw County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 386 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1994-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 915 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1994-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 268 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
915 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-335 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
302 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 Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWinneshiek54 min
Apr 25, 9:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXGrundy52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.