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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Des Moines, IA

April 8, 1995Guthrie County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 9:28 PM CDT for Guthrie County, Iowa. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 8, 1995, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Guthrie County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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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 8, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAdair, Cass, Guthrie29 min
Apr 8, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAdair35 min
Apr 8, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXJasper31 min
Apr 8, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXJasper23 min
Apr 9, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXRinggold34 min
Apr 9, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXTaylor34 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.