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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Des Moines, IA

May 27, 1995Adair County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 8:25 PM CDT for Adair County, Iowa. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1995, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Adair County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1010 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 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
1010 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDSM 280127
TORDSM
IAC001-280200-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
825 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  ADAIR COUNTY - SOUTHWEST IOWA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
 
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
    GREENFIELD

* AT 825 PM CDT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO LARGE TORNADO
  ON THE GROUND 9 MILES WEST OF GREENFIELD MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE AREAS NORTH OF FONANELLE BETWEEN 830 "AND 845 PM CDT.

IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN THE
LOWEST FLOOR AND INNER MOST ROOM OF A BUILDING.

MS MAY 95

The office that day

Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXCarroll, Sac28 min
May 27, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll, Sac22 min
May 27, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Sac34 min
May 27, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdair, Union33 min
May 27, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCass32 min
May 27, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCrawford18 min
May 27, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Sac32 min
May 27, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll32 min
May 27, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGreene, Guthrie35 min
May 27, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPocahontas33 min
May 27, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGuthrie36 min
May 27, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCarroll34 min
May 27, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas31 min
May 27, 9:02 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Sac16 min
May 27, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGreene35 min
May 27, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGreene29 min
May 27, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXCalhoun, Webster25 min
May 27, 9:32 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXAdams, Union28 min
May 27, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXWebster31 min
May 27, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXGuthrie31 min
May 27, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDecatur, Ringgold34 min
May 27, 10:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDallas34 min
May 27, 10:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDecatur29 min
May 27, 10:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXDecatur15 min
May 27, 10:56 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXClarke34 min
May 27, 11:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone35 min
May 28, 1:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMXGuthrie2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.