Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 10:35 AM CDT for Scott County, Iowa; Rock Island County, Illinois. It was in force for 55 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
- May 24, 1996, 10:35 AM CDT (15:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1996, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Scott County, IA, Rock Island County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:35 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 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 374 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 May 24, 9:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 9:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 910 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996 MB CURVE SATELLITE IMAGERY ALONG WITH DVN WSR-88D REF LOOP INDICATED MCS AFFECTING NORTHERN PORTION OF CWA...WITH TRW ECHO TRAINING OCCURRING ALONG A CLINTON-IOWA CITY-NEWTON LINE. CURRENT EXTRAPOLATION OF MCS SYSTEM POINTS TO ACTIVITY ENDING BY EARLY AFTERNOON. IT APPEARS SOUTHERN CWA COUNTIES WILL ESCAPE THE MAIN BRUNT. TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD BE SLUGGISH TO RISE WITH PLENTY OF LOW CIG DEBRIS LEFTOVER. CID 054/++ DBQ 054/++ MLI 060/++ BRL 063/++ BERG
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 24, 10:17 AM CDT, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 1013 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 1996 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... X 1009 AM DELTA IA 1.75 INCH HAIL 05/24/96 KEOKUK GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Keokuk | 64 min |
| May 24, 10:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Keokuk | 62 min |
| May 24, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jefferson | 66 min |
| May 24, 11:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry, Washington | 66 min |
| May 24, 11:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Keokuk | 36 min |
| May 24, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Louisa | 57 min |
| May 24, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jefferson | 62 min |
| May 24, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry | 68 min |
| May 24, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines | 45 min |
| May 24, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Lee | 25 min |
| May 24, 12:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Mercer | 56 min |
| May 24, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson | 45 min |
| May 24, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | McDonough | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.