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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Nov 1, 2000, 3:19 PM CST for Tama County, Iowa. It was in force for 16 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
- Nov 1, 2000, 3:19 PM CST (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2000, 3:35 PM CST
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Tama County, IA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 3:35 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Keystone, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDMX 012120 TORDSM IAC171-012135- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 319 PM CST WED NOV 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN TAMA COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 335 PM * AT 320 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF CHELSEA...OR ABOUT 37 MILES WEST OF CEDAR RAPIDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE... 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VINING AROUND 325 PM NEAR ELBERON AROUND 330 PM THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. LAT...LON 4187 9249 4186 9230 4232 9177 4245 9205 KULA NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 1:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Tama | 31 min |
| Nov 1, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Poweshiek | 38 min |
| Nov 1, 3:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 32 min |
| Nov 1, 3:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke, Decatur | 37 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.