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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 10:31 PM CDT for Decatur County, Iowa. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 10:31 PM CDT (03:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Decatur County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 280332 COR
TORDSM
IAC053-280400-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...COR
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1031 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
DECATUR COUNTY - CENTRAL IOWA
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
LAMONI
DAVIS CITY
LEON
DECATER CITY
* AT 1025 PM CDT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 70 MILES
SOUTH OF DES MOINES...3 MILES WEST OF DAVIS CITY MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 TO 30 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR DECATUR CITY BY 1045 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 56 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, 4 hours 2 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, 37 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, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Decatur, Ringgold | 34 min |
| May 27, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Dallas | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.