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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Des Moines, IA

August 20, 1998Hamilton County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 20, 1998, 9:07 PM CDT for Hamilton County, Iowa. It was in force for 4 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
Aug 20, 1998, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 21, 1998, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 274 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1998-08-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 1998-08-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDSM 210207
FFWDSM
IAC079-210600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
907 PM CDT THU AUG 20 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HAMILTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA

* UNTIL 100 AM CDT

* THROUGH 900 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL OF 4 TO 6 INCHES OVER PORTIONS OF HAMILTON
  COUNTY NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WEBSTER CITY.

* THIS WILL CAUSE A RAPID RISE ON THE BOONE RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES
  BY MIDNIGHT. THE RIVER STAGE AT WEBSTER CITY MAY REACH 10 TO 12
  FEET BEFORE FALLING QUICKLY AGAIN AFTER MIDNIGHT. THIS WILL CAUSE
  MAINLY AGRICULTURAL FLOODING...BUT ANY PEOPLE CURRENTLY NEAR THE
  BOONE RIVER SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.


SOME STREAMS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  BOONE RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES.

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO
WATER.

JUNGBLUTH

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 20, 3:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
IAZ044>046-057-058-070-071-081-082-092-093-210000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
347 PM CDT THU AUG 20 1998

ADVISORY INFORMATION--A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY
EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST IOWA.

RECENT REPORTS--HEAT INDICES WERE IN THE 105 TO 115 DEGREE RANGE
THROUGHOUT SOUTHWEST IOWA. EVEN IN CENTRAL IOWA...HEAT INDICES HAVE
CLIMBED TO AROUND 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WERE
TOPPING OUT IN THE MID 90S BUT DEWPOINTS WERE NEAR 80 DEGREES. SLOW
COOLING IS NOT EXPECTED TO OCCUR UNTIL AFTER 700 PM.

PRECAUTIONS--DELAY ANY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES UNTIL LATER THIS EVENING.
IF YOU MUST BE OUTSIDE AIR CONDITIONING...TAKE APPROPRIATE
PRECAUTIONS.

PYTLAK
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 7:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
IAZ044>046-057-058-070-071-081-082-092-093-210100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
710 PM CDT THU AUG 20 1998

ADVISORY INFORMATION--THE HEAT ADVISORY WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR
PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA HAS EXPIRED.

RECENT REPORTS--AS OF 700 PM HEAT INDICES WERE FALLING BACK BELOW THE
100 DEGREE MARK DUE TO THE SETTING SUN AND COOLER OUTFLOW FROM
THUNDERSTORMS. DEWPOINTS WERE STILL IN THE 70S HOWEVER...AND IT WILL
BE A MUGGY EVENING UNTIL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP. LOCATIONS
ALONG HIGHWAY 30 WERE THE FIRST TO SEE RELIEF FROM THE HEAT.

JUNGBLUTH
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 7:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
IAZ044>046-057-058-070-071-081-082-092-093-210100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
710 PM CDT THU AUG 20 1998

ADVISORY INFORMATION--THE HEAT ADVISORY WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR
PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA HAS EXPIRED.

RECENT REPORTS--AS OF 700 PM HEAT INDICES WERE FALLING BACK BELOW THE
100 DEGREE MARK DUE TO THE SETTING SUN AND COOLER OUTFLOW FROM
THUNDERSTORMS. DEWPOINTS WERE STILL IN THE 70S HOWEVER...AND IT WILL
BE A MUGGY EVENING UNTIL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP. LOCATIONS
ALONG HIGHWAY 30 WERE THE FIRST TO SEE RELIEF FROM THE HEAT.

JUNGBLUTH

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Iowa, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.