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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 3:07 PM CDT for Van Buren County, Iowa. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 29, 1998, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 4:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Van Buren County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 917 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
458 WFUS1 KMLI 292009 RRA TORMLI IAC031-087-115-139-177-292110- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 307 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES IA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CEDAR COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA HENRY COUNTY IOWA IN SOUTHEASTERN IOWA LOUISA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN IOWA MUSCATINE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA VAN BUREN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN IOWA * UNTIL 410 PM CDT * AT 308 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 24 MILES WEST OF MUSCATINE OR 7 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS JCT MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WINFIELD AROUND 315 PM CDT CONESVILLE AROUND 320 PM CDT COLUMBUS JCT AROUND 320 PM CDT WAPELLO AROUND 335 PM CDT MUSCATINE AROUND 345 PM CDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR BERG &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Iowa | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Keokuk | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Benton, Iowa | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Johnson, Linn | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Keokuk | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jefferson, Washington | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Johnson | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Washington | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar, Muscatine | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Henry, Louisa | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Lee | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Lee | 62 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.