Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 1995, 5:46 PM CST for Black Hawk County, Iowa. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 1995, 5:46 PM CST (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1995, 6:35 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Black Hawk County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDSM 222347 RRA
SVRDSM
IAC013-230035-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
546 PM CST WED MAR 22 1995
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
BLACK HAWK COUNTY IOWA - NORTHEAST IOWA
* UNTIL 635 PM CST
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
WATERLOO
VORHIES
HUDSON
* AT 545 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WATERLOO OR NEAR VOORHIES MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR WATERLOO AT 555 PM CST.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. DO NOT GO OUTDOORS.
BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL WITH THIS STORM.
SMALLWhat 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, Mar 22, 5:09 PM CST, 37 minutes before
IAZ004>006-015-016-024-222355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 509 PM CST WED MAR 22 1995 ...SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN IOWA... THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL WILL CONTINUE MOVING OVER SEVERAL COUNTIES ACROSS NORTHERN IOWA THROUGH 6PM. PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN HUMBOLT COUNTY BETWEEN GILMORE CITY AND HUMBOLT AROUND 5PM. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS THROUGH THE TOWNS OF LIVERMORE...RENWICK AND LU VERNE BETWEEN 5 AND 530 PM. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN IOWA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. SMALL
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 5:11 PM CST, 35 minutes before
IAZ004>006-015-016-024-222355- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 509 PM CST WED MAR 22 1995 ...SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN IOWA... THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL WILL CONTINUE MOVING OVER SEVERAL COUNTIES ACROSS NORTHERN IOWA THROUGH 6PM. PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN HUMBOLT COUNTY BETWEEN GILMORE CITY AND HUMBOLT AROUND 5PM. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS THROUGH THE TOWNS OF LIVERMORE...RENWICK AND LU VERNE BETWEEN 5 AND 530 PM. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN IOWA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. SMALL
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 5:35 PM CST, 11 minutes before
IAZALL-230040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 535 PM CST WED MAR 22 1995 AT 530 PM CST...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE NORTHEAST HALF OF IOWA. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM STORM LAKE TO BURLINGTON. THE STRONGEST STORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO MABLE SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WERE LOCATED NEAR HANCOCK AND NORTHERN WRIGHT COUNTIES. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. BAILEY
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 5:36 PM CST, 10 minutes before
IAZALL-230040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 535 PM CST WED MAR 22 1995 AT 530 PM CST...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER THE NORTHEAST HALF OF IOWA. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM STORM LAKE TO BURLINGTON. THE STRONGEST STORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO MABLE SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WERE LOCATED NEAR HANCOCK AND NORTHERN WRIGHT COUNTIES. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. BAILEY
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.