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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Des Moines, IA

June 8, 1999Kossuth County, Winnebago County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1999, 2:29 PM CDT for Kossuth County, Winnebago County, Iowa. It was in force for 51 min. 3 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: Jun 8, 1999, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1999, 3:20 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kossuth County, IA, Winnebago County, IA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 8, 2:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Lakota, IA
Jun 8, 3:17 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Lake Mills, IA
Jun 8, 3:24 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Lake Mills, 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
Jun 8, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 8, 10:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 10:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 10:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 1:30 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 1:32 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 1:48 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
148 PM CDT TUE JUN 08 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0145 PM    3 NW SWEA CITY            IA    .75 INCH HAIL
06/08/99   KOSSUTH

Local storm report, Jun 8, 2:26 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
226 PM CDT TUE JUN 08 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0215 PM    FINCHFORD                 IA    1 INCH HAIL
06/08/99   BLACKHAWK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Bremer	33 min
Jun 8, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Wright	31 min
Jun 8, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Wright	32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.