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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 12:27 PM CDT for Lucas County, Iowa. It was in force for 33 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 13, 2000, 12:27 PM CDT (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lucas County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 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 13, 12:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Lucas, 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 13, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 247 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 997 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDMX 131728 SVRDSM IAC117-131800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1227 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN LUCAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 100 PM * AT 1224 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LUCAS...OR ABOUT 38 MILES SOUTH OF DES MOINES...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER THE CITY OF LUCAS THROUGH 12:45 PM IN RURAL NORTHWESTERN LUCAS COUNTY THROUGH 100 PM DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS IS LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA. DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 70 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. LAT...LON 4091 9357 4091 9328 4116 9327 4116 9356 SE<ARCY NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Pocahontas | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Wright | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marshall | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Grundy, Tama | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Davis, Wapello | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Bremer | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cass | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Kossuth | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams, Cass | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Webster | 39 min |
| Jun 13, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Story | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hardin | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Marshall | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.