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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Des Moines, IA

May 28, 1998Humboldt County, Webster County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1998, 5:56 PM CDT for Humboldt County, Webster County, Iowa. It was in force for 34 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 28, 1998, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1998, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Humboldt County, IA, Webster County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 28, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 28, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 1669 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -237 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 991 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 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 282256 RRA
SVRDSM
IAC091-187-282330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
556 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA
  NORTHEASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 555 PM CDT... LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT DODGE OR 3 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF THOR MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS.

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

STARK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 3:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Pocahontas	36 min
May 28, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Palo Alto	34 min
May 28, 3:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Pocahontas	31 min
May 28, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Webster	37 min
May 28, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Humboldt	30 min
May 28, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Wright	20 min
May 28, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hamilton	32 min
May 28, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Wright	21 min
May 28, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hardin	31 min
May 28, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hardin	34 min
May 28, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Grundy	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm 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.