Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2000, 3:52 PM CDT for Guthrie County, Iowa. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2000, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Guthrie County, IA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 4:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Bayard, IA | |
| Jul 26, 4:37 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Bagley, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDMX 262052 RRA TORDSM IAC077-262130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 352 PM CDT WED JUL 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GUTHRIE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 430 PM * AT 348 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF BAYARD...OR ABOUT 54 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT DODGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE... 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAYARD AROUND 400 PM NEAR GUTHRIE CENTER AROUND 425 PM THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. JOHNSON/COGIL NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto | 40 min |
| Jul 25, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Humboldt | 37 min |
| Jul 26, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Webster | 47 min |
| Jul 26, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Sac | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton | 44 min |
| Jul 26, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Palo Alto, Pocahontas | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 8:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 41 min |
| Jul 26, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marshall | 36 min |
| Jul 26, 9:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 27 min |
| Jul 26, 9:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Marshall, Story | 33 min |
| Jul 26, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 11:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 42 min |
| Jul 26, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 27 min |
| Jul 26, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Greene | 34 min |
| Jul 26, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas, Guthrie | 42 min |
| Jul 26, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Greene, Guthrie | 43 min |
| Jul 26, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 27 min |
| Jul 26, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone | 34 min |
| Jul 26, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Story | 39 min |
| Jul 26, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Story | 23 min |
| Jul 26, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Guthrie | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair | 40 min |
| Jul 26, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair | 43 min |
| Jul 26, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Tama | 28 min |
| Jul 26, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cass | 50 min |
| Jul 26, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair | 33 min |
| Jul 26, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cass | 35 min |
| Jul 26, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Cass | 27 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.