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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1997, 10:46 PM CDT for Jackson County, Jones 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 15, 1997, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, IA, Jones County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:49 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 654 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1426 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMLI 160346
FFWMLI
IAC097-105-160645-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1046 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
JACKSON COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL IOWA
JONES COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL IOWA
* UNTIL 145 AM CDT
* SOME STREAMS AFFECTED
BEAR CREEK
FARMER/S CREEK
NORTH FORK OF MAQUOKETA RIVER
STREAMS FEEDING THE MAQUOKETA RIVER
* SINCE 1000 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR ESIMATED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF
RAIN FELL OVER NORTHERN JONES AND ALL OF JACKSON COUNTY.
* FORECAST CONDITIONS
TORRENTIAL RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT
LEAST 1230 AM CDT. THIS WILL MAKE THE FLASH FLOOD DANGER
INCREASE MORE T8HAN IT ALREADY IS.
LEAVE FLOOD PRONE OR LOW LYING AREAS IMMEDIATELY.
HELGESONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Benton | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Linn | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Buchanan, Delaware | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware, Jones, Linn | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Linn | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque, Jones | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque, Jackson | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jones | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jackson | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Jackson, Jones | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Jackson | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Jones | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Van Buren | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Jefferson | 5 hr |
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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.