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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Quad Cities, IA

July 19, 1995Cedar County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 1995, 5:44 PM CDT for Cedar County, Iowa. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 1995, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Cedar County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 55 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 1995-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 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 1995-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1356 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What 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, Jul 19, 12:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT... UPDATED INFORMATION 2NW TIPTON...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1207 PM CDT THU JUL 19 1995

...PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT FOR WEDNESDAY /JULY 19 1995/...

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE(CDT)  ....COUNTY LOCATION....

450  PM    GARRISON                  IA   LARGE TREE DOWN ACROSS 66TH
07/19/95   BENTON

555  PM    WEST BRANCH               IA   TREES DOWN... AND DAMAGE TO
07/19/95   CEDAR                          A BARN AND ANOTHER SHEDS ROOF

605  PM    TIPTON                    IA   TREES DOWN
07/19/95   CEDAR

615  PM    BENNET                    IA   TREES DOWN
07/19/95   CEDAR

... DELAYED REPORT ...

605 PM     2 1/2MI NW OF TIPTON      IA   TWO HOG SHEDS DESTROYED
07/19/95   CEDAR

HIRSCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNBenton63 min
Jul 19, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNClinton, Scott65 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.