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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Quad Cities, IA

June 13, 2000Jones County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2000, 10:01 PM CDT for Jones County, Iowa. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2000, 10:01 PM CDT (03:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Jones County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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.

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, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 306 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1177 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDVN 140259
SVRMLI
IAC105-140330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1001 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JONES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 955 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND TRAINED SPOTTERS INDICATED A LINE
  OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 4 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF MORLEY...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANAMOSA...MOVING EAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   OLIN BY 1000 PM CDT.
   HALE BY 1010 PM CDT.
   WYOMING BY 1020 PM CDT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.  FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. PREPARE 
TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT
OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1 INCH
IN DIAMETER AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE UNTIL THESE STORMS PASS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN THE QUAD CITIES.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM
CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN IOWA AND NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS.

LAT...LON 4221 9132 4195 9128 4196 9091 4225 9091

LRE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Benton, Buchanan	27 min
Jun 13, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Buchanan, Delaware, Linn	45 min
Jun 13, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Benton	45 min
Jun 13, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Keokuk, Washington	44 min
Jun 13, 9:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Iowa	4 hr
Jun 13, 10:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Johnson	4 hr
Jun 13, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Lee, Van Buren	31 min
Jun 13, 11:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Cedar	4 hr
Jun 13, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Scott	4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.