Tornado Warning 53, NWS Des Moines, IA

Issued

Jun 29, 1998, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)

Expired

Jun 29, 1998, 2:55 PM CDT

In force

32 min

Issued by

NWS Des Moines, IA

Area

Whole counties

County Marion County, IA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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TTAA00 KDSM 291923 RRA
TORDSM
IAC125-291955-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
223 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA

* UNTIL 255 PM CDT

* AT 222 PM CDT... LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 25 MILES
  EAST SOUTHEAST OF DES MOINES OR 7 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF
  KNOXVILLE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THIS TORNADO CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR...
   KNOXVILLE          BY 231 PM CDT
   RED ROCK RESERVOIR BY 232 PM CDT
   PERSHING           BY 241 PM CDT
   HARVEY             BY 244 PM CDT
   TRACY              BY 249 PM CDT

GO TO THE BASEMENT* OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

COGIL

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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.