Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1995, 4:10 PM CDT for Union County, Iowa. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1995, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 905 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1421 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMLI 312111 RRA SVRDSM IAC175-312200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA ISSUED BY QUAD CITIES IA IL 410 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA ...UNION COUNTY AT 409 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OZF CRESTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL REACH CRESTON MOMENTARILY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS! ZOGG
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
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 2:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
IAZ047-312010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 233 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BOONE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THE STORM OVER BOONE COUNTY WAS NO LONGER SEVERE. WIND GUSTS OVER EASTERN BOONE COUNTY JUST NORTHWEST OF LUTHER HAD FALLEN TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. BELLES
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 2:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
IAZ047-312010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 233 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BOONE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THE STORM OVER BOONE COUNTY WAS NO LONGER SEVERE. WIND GUSTS OVER EASTERN BOONE COUNTY JUST NORTHWEST OF LUTHER HAD FALLEN TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. BELLES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Greene | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone | 20 min |
| Jul 31, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Grundy | 53 min |
| Jul 31, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Union | 19 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.