Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 1:34 PM CDT for Hamilton County, Wright County, Iowa. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports 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, 1:34 PM CDT (18:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Hamilton County, IA, Wright County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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, 1:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Webster City, IA | |
| Jun 13, 2:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Eagle Grove, 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 252 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 131835 SVRDSM IAC079-197-131915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 134 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL WRIGHT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 215 PM * AT 129 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WEBSTER CITY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF FORT DODGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR WOOLSTOCK AROUND 140 PM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EAGLE GROVE AROUND 150 PM NEAR CLARION AROUND 200 PM NEAR ROWAN AROUND 210 PM HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS IS LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA. VERY STRONG WINDS UP TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR INwTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 4243 9395 4232 9371 4278 9350 4278 9397 JUNGBLUTH 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, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Lucas | 33 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, 1:44 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.