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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 305, NWS Des Moines, IA

October 29, 1998Marshall County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 1998, 4:34 PM CST for Marshall County, Iowa. It was in force for 21 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
Oct 29, 1998, 4:34 PM CST (22:34 UTC)
Expired
Oct 29, 1998, 4:55 PM CST
In force
21 min
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Marshall County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 212 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1998-10-29Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1998-10-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 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
901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
216 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 292235
SVRDSM
IAC127-292255-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
434 PM CST THU OCT 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA

* UNTIL 455 PM CST

* AT 433 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 43
  MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF WATERLOO OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LE
  GRAND... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
   LE GRAND           BY 444 PM CST

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 29, 4:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXTama20 min
Oct 29, 5:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXPoweshiek34 min
Oct 29, 5:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXTama31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1998Every 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.