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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Des Moines, IA

June 22, 1997Butler County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1997, 10:59 PM CDT for Butler County, Iowa. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 1997, 10:59 PM CDT (03:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1997, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Area: Whole counties

County Butler County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 3560 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDSM 230358
FFWDSM
IAC023-069-081-197-230700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1059 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  BUTLER COUNTY - NORTHEASTERN IOWA
  FRANKLIN COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL IOWA
  HANCOCK COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL IOWA
  WRIGHT COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL IOWA

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT
 
* SOME STREAMS AFFECTED
    BEAVER CREEK
    BUFFALO CREEK
    UPPER REACHES OF THE IOWA RIVER

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
  THUNDERSTORMS BROUGHT UP TO THREE AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAINFALL
  OVER PARTS OF THESE COUNTIES.  THIS WAS ON TOP OF THE HEAVY
  RAINFALL FROM FRIDAY NIGHT.  FRANKLIN COUNTY REPORTS WATER OVER
  SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS WITH DEBRIS WASHING ON TO THEM.

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
  THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA BY MIDNIGHT ALLOWING WATER
  TO RECEDE.  FLOODING WILL THEN MOVE INTO THE LARGER RIVERS.

LEAVE FLOOD PRONE OR LOW LYING AREAS IMMEDIATELY.  DO NOT BE FOOLISH
BY DRIVING INTO RUNNING WATER.

77
 

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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 22, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Franklin, Wright	31 min
Jun 22, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hancock, Winnebago	32 min
Jun 22, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Franklin	35 min
Jun 22, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Franklin	31 min
Jun 22, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Winnebago	29 min
Jun 22, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Grundy	30 min
Jun 22, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Butler	47 min
Jun 22, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hancock	34 min
Jun 22, 10:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Franklin, Hancock, Wright	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Iowa, 1997 Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.