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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Des Moines, IA

June 25, 2000Appanoose County, Lucas County, Monroe County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 6:51 PM CDT for Appanoose County, Lucas County, Monroe County, Iowa. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2000, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Appanoose County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Monroe County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 7:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 56 E	Albia, 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 25, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 887 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDMX 252352
SVRDSM
IAC007-117-135-260045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
651 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  APPANOOSE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA
  EASTERN LUCAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA

* UNTIL 745 PM

* AT 650 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
  OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLIAMSON TO 20
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLANO...OR FROM 38 MILES WEST OF OTTUMWA TO 57
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF OTTUMWA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...
  NEAR MELROSE AROUND 700 PM
  NEAR PLANO AROUND 710 PM
  NEAR LOVILIA AROUND 720 PM
  NEAR ALBIA AROUND 730 PM
  NEAR CENTERVILLE AROUND 740 PM
  NEAR EXLINE AROUND 750 PM

HURRICANE FORCE WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MILES AN HOUR ARE LIKELY IN THE
WARNED AREA.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS DURING A SEVERE STORM...WIND GUSTS OVER 70 MPH
COULD BLOW THEM OUT.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

LAT...LON 4117 9334 4090 9336 4089 9311 4058 9310
          4060 9267 4088 9265 4116 9266

SEARCY
NNNN

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 25, 1:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
108 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000

...SEVERE AND FLOODING POTENTIAL TONIGHT MAIN CHALLENGE THIS
PACKAGE...

FINISHED PRELIMINARY ZONES BY NOON AND MAY HAVE TO ADJUST PACKAGE
SLIGHTLY AT PRESS TIME FOR ONGOING CONVECTION AND ANY CONVECTIVE OR
WATER WATCHES.

ANYWAY HARD TO MISS POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION ACROSS CWA AND
SURROUNDING STATES WITH ONGOING CONVECTION.  SATELLITE AND PROGGED
SOUNDINGS INDICATE GREAT INSTABLILITY WITH DIMINISHED OR CINH GONE.
THETA E CONV BULLSEYE OVER WRN IA INTO NEB.  PWATS FROM DERIVED
SOUNDINGS IN THE 1.5 TO 2.0 INCH RANGE TOO.  LOOKS LIKE CONVECTION
SHOULD BECOME LINEAR ALONG OR AHEAD OF FRONT AND BE OVER IN NW CWA
BY MIDNIGHT.  BEST CHANCES FOR HEAVY RAIN TO BE WC INTO C AND SW
CWA.  AGAIN...WILL LIKELY NEED FFA FOR SW 1/2 OR 1/3 CWA.

MAY BE TOUGH TO GET PRECIP OUT OF SE CWA BY DAWN...BUT THAT'S HOW
I'M GOING TO TRY IT FOR NOW.  AGAIN...BY PRESS TIME...I MAY HAVE TO
ADD A 40 OR 50 POP TO MONDAY MORNING.

TEMPS ON MONDAY TO BE NEAR FAN NUMBERS WITH RAIN COOLED AIR AND WET
GROUND.  FARTHER OUT WILL GO NEAR COMP.

NEXT WEATHER MAKER COULD BE TUES NIGHT...BUT WILL CONT WITH DRY FCST
FOR NOW.  WILL RUN CHC SHRA/TSRA WED INTO THURS WITH MOISTURE
RETURN...S/W TROFS MOVING OVER IA WITH HUDSON'S BAY VORTEX STILL IN
PLACE...AND SO FORTH.  WILL KEEP TEMPS IN 70S FOR MOST PART UNTIL
WARMER AND DRY FRI.

.DSM...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR SRN HALF OF DSM CWA...OR
IAZ033>035-044>050-057>062-070>075-081>086-092>097.

SEARCY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Cass	45 min
Jun 25, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Guthrie	24 min
Jun 25, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Madison, Union	35 min
Jun 25, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Adams	42 min
Jun 25, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Clarke	39 min
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas, Polk	45 min
Jun 25, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Madison, Warren	39 min
Jun 25, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Ringgold, Taylor	38 min
Jun 25, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Lucas, Marion, Warren	44 min
Jun 25, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Clarke	44 min
Jun 25, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Decatur, Ringgold	42 min
Jun 25, 6:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Decatur	4 hr
Jun 25, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Wayne	34 min
Jun 25, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Mahaska, Marion	63 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.