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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Quad Cities, IA

July 23, 1999Des Moines County, Lee County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1999, 4:12 PM CDT for Des Moines County, Lee County, Iowa. It was in force for 48 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: Jul 23, 1999, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 1999, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Des Moines County, IA, Lee County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 23, 3:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar	31 min
Jul 23, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Muscatine, Scott	47 min
Jul 23, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henry	46 min
Jul 23, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Benton, Linn	46 min
Jul 23, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Lee	49 min
Jul 23, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Cedar	47 min
Jul 23, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Louisa, Muscatine	47 min
Jul 23, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Henry	37 min
Jul 23, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Mercer, Rock Island	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1999 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.