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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1995, 8:04 PM CDT for Franklin County, Iowa. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1995, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1995, 8:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDSM 070104
TORDSM
IAC069-070135-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
804 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
FRANKLIN COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL IOWA
* UNTIL 835 PM CDT
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
LATIMER
HAMPTON
* AT 803 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST SOUTHWEST OF SHEFFIELD
25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MASON CITY MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR LATIMER AND HAMPTON BY 825 PM.
THIS STORM WAS ROTATING RAPIDLY AND HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING
GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AND FUNNEL CLOUDS. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT.
PYTLAKWhat 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
Local storm report, Jun 6, 5:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 520 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1443 CDT 4W NORTHWOOD IA 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL 06/06/95 WORTH COUNTY MS JUN 95
Local storm report, Jun 6, 5:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 520 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1443 C&DT 4W NORTHWOOD IA 1 INCH DIAMETER HAIL 06/06/95 WORTH COUNTY MS JUN 95
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Winnebago | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Franklin | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Floyd | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wright | 33 min |
| Jun 6, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Franklin, Hardin | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton | 35 min |
| Jun 7, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Winneshiek | 51 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.