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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Des Moines, IA

June 10, 1999Ringgold County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1999, 9:32 AM CDT for Ringgold 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
Jun 10, 1999, 9:32 AM CDT (14:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1999, 10:05 AM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA
Area
Whole counties

County Ringgold County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 328 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1999-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 588 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1999-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
588 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1446 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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 9, 2:50 PM CDT, 18 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:50 PM CDT, 18 hours 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXPolk35 min
Jun 9, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXStory32 min
Jun 10, 9:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAdams, Union31 min
Jun 10, 10:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXClarke, Madison35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.