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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Des Moines, IA

June 16, 1996Fayette County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1996, 6:23 PM CDT for Fayette County, Iowa. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 1996, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Area: Whole counties

County Fayette County, IA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 7:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55	Arlington, IA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 157 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KALO 162323
TORALO
IAC065-170000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WATERLOO IA
623 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WATERLOO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST IOWA
 
   ...FAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 620 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS SPOTTED ON THE GROUND 6 MILES NORTH OF
OELWEIN. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN
MAYNARD...FAYETTE AND RANDALIA SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
DURING A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN A BASEMENT.  GET UNDER
A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.  IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS "A CLOSET ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR.  AVOID WINDOWS.
AKL
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 4:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Bremer	13 min
Jun 16, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Chickasaw	33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.