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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1998, 4:53 PM CDT for Marion County, Iowa. It was in force for 32 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 19, 1998, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1998, 5:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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 19, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 2752 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 917 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
834 WFUS1 KDSM 192154 RRA TORDSM IAC125-192225- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 453 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 525 PM CDT * AT 450 PM CDT... STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 21 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF DES MOINES OR NEAR RUNNELS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THIS TORNADO CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR... PLEASANTVILLE BY 455 PM CDT KNOXVILLER BY 510 PM CDT A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND GO TO THE BASEMENT IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR JUNGBLUTH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk, Warren | 31 min |
| May 19, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 34 min |
| May 19, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper | 34 min |
| May 19, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 32 min |
| May 19, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Polk | 34 min |
| May 19, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper | 32 min |
| May 19, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Marion, Polk | 36 min |
| May 19, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 46 min |
| May 19, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 46 min |
| May 19, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper | 49 min |
| May 19, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 34 min |
| May 19, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marshall | 51 min |
| May 19, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 33 min |
| May 19, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 31 min |
| May 19, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas, Warren | 33 min |
| May 19, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 45 min |
| May 19, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marshall, Story | 31 min |
| May 19, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wapello | 46 min |
| May 19, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 48 min |
Nearby
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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.