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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 10:11 PM CDT for Decatur County, Ringgold County, Iowa. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Decatur County, IA, Ringgold County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 10:19 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Mt Ayr To, IA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDSM 280314
TORDSM
IAC053-159-280345-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1011 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN DECATUR COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN RINGGOLD COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA
* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
LAMONI
DAVIS CITY
HIGHWAY J55...10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MT AYR
* AT 1012 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DES
MOINES...NEAR LAMONI MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR LAMONI BY 1025 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 95What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, May 27, 4:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
IAZALL-272300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IOWA 435 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 HAZARD...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH COULD BE TORNADIC IN SOUTHWEST IOWA. AREA OF CONCERN...SOUTHWEST IOWA....ROUGHLY SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM SIOUX CITY TO LAMONI. TIMING AND DETAILS...THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP AT ANYTIME...FROM NOW THROUGH THIS EVENING. METEOROLOGICAL COMMENTS...VERY UNSTABLE AIR HAS MOVED INTO SOUTHWEST IOWA ALONG WITH A WARM FRONT WHICH IS NOW LOCATED FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS TO OSCEOLA. PRECAUTIONS...SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD CONCIDER ACTIVATION IN SOUTHWEST IOWA. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM IN WESTERN IOWA. WATCHES MAY BE EXPENADED FARTHER EAST DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. BELLES
Special weather statement, May 27, 6:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
IAZALL-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IOWA 628 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 THE TORNADO WATCH FOR A SMALL PART OF WESTERN IOWA VALID UNTIL 800 PM THIS EVENING HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEW TORNADO WATCH. HENCE... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 482 HAS BEEN CANCELLED...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 484 VALID UNTIL 100 AM CDT SUNDAY COVERS ABOUT THE WEST HALF OF THE STATE. A LINE OF STRONG...OCCASIONALLY SEVERE...THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVTELOPING EAST INTO IOWA. THE LINE EXTENDED ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER AT 625 PM THIS EVENING. THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AROUND 40 MPH WHILE THE LINE IS WORKING EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. MS MAY 95
Special weather statement, May 27, 9:54 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
IAZ035-280325- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR IOWA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 953 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...TORANDO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM FOR NORTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY... RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT DODGE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THERE WAS ALSO A REPORT OF A TORNADO BETWEEN MOORLAN AND FORT DODGE AT 957 PM. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO FORT DODGE BY 1005 PM. TAKE COVER NOW...THIS IS A DANGEROUJS SITUATION. JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll, Sac | 28 min |
| May 27, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Carroll, Sac | 22 min |
| May 27, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Sac | 34 min |
| May 27, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Adair, Union | 33 min |
| May 27, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Cass | 32 min |
| May 27, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Crawford | 18 min |
| May 27, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Sac | 32 min |
| May 27, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Carroll | 32 min |
| May 27, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Greene, Guthrie | 35 min |
| May 27, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Adair | 35 min |
| May 27, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 33 min |
| May 27, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 36 min |
| May 27, 8:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Carroll | 34 min |
| May 27, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Dallas | 31 min |
| May 27, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Sac | 16 min |
| May 27, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Greene | 35 min |
| May 27, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Greene | 29 min |
| May 27, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Webster | 25 min |
| May 27, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Adams, Union | 28 min |
| May 27, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Webster | 31 min |
| May 27, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 31 min |
| May 27, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Dallas | 34 min |
| May 27, 10:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Decatur | 29 min |
| May 27, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Decatur | 15 min |
| May 27, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Clarke | 34 min |
| May 27, 11:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone | 35 min |
| May 28, 1:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 2 hr |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.