Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Des Moines, IA

May 16, 1999Clarke County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1999, 3:52 AM CDT for Clarke County, Iowa. It was in force for 33 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 16, 1999, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1999, 4:25 AM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Area: Whole counties

County Clarke County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -296 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 866 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 16, 3:45 AM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 3:45 AM CDT, 7 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 4:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Warren	36 min
May 16, 8:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Greene	33 min
May 16, 9:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Greene	36 min
May 16, 9:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Sac	41 min
May 16, 10:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Story	33 min
May 16, 10:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Webster	32 min
May 16, 10:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hamilton, Hardin	33 min
May 16, 10:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Webster	32 min
May 16, 11:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hardin	32 min
May 16, 11:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hamilton, Wright	47 min
May 16, 12:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Franklin	45 min
May 16, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Butler	63 min
May 16, 12:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Bremer	65 min
May 16, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Franklin	34 min
May 16, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Butler	32 min
May 16, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Bremer	62 min
May 16, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk	47 min
May 16, 3:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Crawford	33 min
May 16, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Crawford	17 min
May 16, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Crawford	50 min
May 16, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hardin	32 min
May 16, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk, Grundy	32 min
May 16, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Sac	47 min
May 16, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer	35 min
May 16, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Cass	32 min
May 16, 6:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Hardin	2 hr
May 16, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Butler	34 min
May 16, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Audubon, Cass	47 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.