Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT for Jones County, Linn County, Iowa. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jones County, IA, Linn County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 497 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 621 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 19, 7:05 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 7:05 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 705 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 NO AFD TONIGHT DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER. WOLF
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 19, 5:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 542 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 60541 PM 5 N DANVILLE IA 1.75 INCH HAIL 04/19/96 DES MOINES GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
Local storm report, Apr 19, 5:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 551 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... `0547 PM 6 N OQUAWKA IA 1.00 INCH HAIL 04/19/96 DES MOINES 0549 PM 5 SW MEDIAPOLIS IA 1.00 INCH HAIL 04/19/96 DES MOINES
Local storm report, Apr 19, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
611 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION....
0610 .5 NE BALD BLUFF IL TORNADO
04/19/96 HENDERSON SEVERAL OUT BUILDINGS
DESTROYEDLocal storm report, Apr 19, 6:44 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 642 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 06639 PM LYNN CENTER IL 1.75 INCH HAIL 04/19/96 HENRY
Local storm report, Apr 19, 6:53 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 651 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... R0650 PM CAMBRIDGE IL 1.75 INCH HAIL 04/19/96 HENRY
Local storm report, Apr 19, 7:15 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 710 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 0702 PM 2 S BISHOP HILL IL TORNADO 04/19/96 HENRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jackson | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Bureau | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Bureau, Putnam | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Stephenson | 49 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.