Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Des Moines, IA

June 6, 1995Floyd County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT for Floyd County, Iowa. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1995, 8:20 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Floyd County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1995-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 433 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1995-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 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
433 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KALO 070044 RRA
SVRALO
IAC067-070130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WATERLOO IA
745 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WATERLOO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA
 
   ...WESTERN FLOYD COUNTY
 
AT 745 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN WATERLOO INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ROCKFORD OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MASON CITY.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT
ROCKFORD AND MARBLE ROCK.
 
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING
WIND...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND OCCASIONALLY TORNADOES.
 
 
 
KAUFMAN

What 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, 2 hours 25 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, 2 hours 24 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWinnebago30 min
Jun 6, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXCerro Gordo32 min
Jun 6, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCerro Gordo32 min
Jun 6, 7:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXFranklin32 min
Jun 6, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXFranklin31 min
Jun 6, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWright33 min
Jun 6, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXFranklin, Hardin30 min
Jun 6, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXHamilton35 min
Jun 7, 3:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXEmmet46 min
Jun 7, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXWinneshiek51 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.