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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Quad Cities, IA

June 23, 1995Dubuque County, Jackson County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 5:56 PM CDT for Dubuque County, Jackson County, Iowa. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1995, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dubuque County, IA, Jackson County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 80 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1995-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 502 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1995-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
502 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1480 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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 KMLI 232304 RRA
SVRMLI
IAC097-061-232330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
556 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA
 
   ...NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST IOWA
 
   ...SOUTHERN DUBUQUE COUNTY
 
AT 600 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
BERNARD. THIS STORM IS NEARLY STATIONARY AND HAS PRODUCED 3/4 INCH HAIL
10 MILES SOUTH OF THE DUBUQUE AIRPORT. THIS STORM WILL EFFECT THE TOWNS
OF BERNARD... ZWINGLE... LA MOTTE.
 
 
 
THIS STxORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
 
HIRSCH/DVY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNDubuque38 min
Jun 23, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNDubuque, Jackson29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.