Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT for Worth County, Iowa. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Worth County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDSM 062329 RRA
SVRDSM
IAC195-070000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
630 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
WORTH COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL IOWA
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
NORTHWOOD
HANLONTOWN
KENSETT
MANLY
* AT 628 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SILVER LAKE
40 MILES NORTHWEST OF MASON CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR NORTHWOOD BY 640 PM AND HANLONTOWN BY 650 PM.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. STAY INDOORS.
PYTLAKWhat 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
Local storm report, Jun 6, 5:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 520 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1443 CDT 4W NORTHWOOD IA 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL 06/06/95 WORTH COUNTY MS JUN 95
Local storm report, Jun 6, 5:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 520 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1443 C&DT 4W NORTHWOOD IA 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL 06/06/95 WORTH COUNTY MS JUN 95
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Winnebago | 36 min |
| Jun 6, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Hancock | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Worth | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mitchell | 54 min |
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.