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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 10:19 PM CDT for Dubuque County, Jackson County, Jones County, Iowa. It was in force for 66 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 1998, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1998, 11:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dubuque County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jones County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:21 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 10:19 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, IA | |
| Aug 24, 10:28 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Canton, IA | |
| Aug 24, 11:12 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 | Preston, IA | |
| Aug 24, 11:18 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Andrew, IA | |
| Aug 24, 11:23 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Preston, 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -493 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 441 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 24, 9:28 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 9:28 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 928 PM CDT MON AUG 24 1998 CONVECTION REFIRING ACROSS EASTERN IOWA IN FAVORABLE INSTABILITY/ MOISTURE GRADIENTS. ADAP SHOWS MOISTURE CONVERGENCE BULLSEYE BETWEEN DVN AND DSM. JUST OFF THE PHONE WITH SPC. WATCH FORTHCOMING FOR THE AREA. ALL ZONES TO BE UPDATED ASAP ONCE WATCH ISSUED. 08
In the hours before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 1017 PM CDT MON AUG 24 1998 TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE(CDT) ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1112 PM PRESTON IA 59 MPH WIND GUST 08/24/98 JACKSON MEASURED
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 10:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Jackson | 36 min |
| Aug 24, 11:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton | 51 min |
| Aug 24, 11:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Carroll, Whiteside | 62 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.