Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 6:35 PM CDT for Cerro Gordo County, Hancock County, Iowa. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1995, 6:35 PM CDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1995, 7:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cerro Gordo County, IA, Hancock County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 197 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 062335 RRA
SVRDSM
IAC033-081-070005-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
635 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NORTHWESTERN CERRO GORDO COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL IOWA
NORTHEASTERN HANCOCK COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL IOWA
* UNTIL 705 PM CDT
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
MILLER
CLEAR LAKE
GANRER
VENTURA
* AT 630 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FOREST CITY 20
MILES NORTHWEST OF MASON CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THREE
QUARTER INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THOMPSON AND LAKE MILLS IN
WINNEBAGO COUNTY AT 625 PM.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR MILLER BY 645 PM AND CLEAR LAKE BY 655 PM.
MOVE INDOORS. HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE IS LIKELY.
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 15 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 14 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, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Worth | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.