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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Des Moines, IA

June 5, 1995Dallas County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1995, 3:36 PM CDT for Dallas County, Iowa. It was in force for 13 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1995, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1995, 3:49 PM CDT
In force
13 min
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Dallas County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 314 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
314 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1056 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDSM 052036
TORDSM
IAC049-073-052110-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
336 PM CDT MON JUN 5 1995

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHWEST DALLAS COUNTY - CENTRAL IOWA
  SOUTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL IOWA

* UNTIL 410 PM CDT
 
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
    PERRY
    DAWSON
    RIPPEY

* AT 333 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF PERRY
  MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE PSTORM WILL BE NEAR RIPPEY BY 345 PM.

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

FELDT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXGreene28 min
Jun 5, 4:26 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXBoone, Hamilton14 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.