Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Des Moines, IA
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Winnebago | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Franklin | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Franklin | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wright | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Franklin, Hardin | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton | 35 min |
| Jun 7, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Winneshiek | 51 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.