Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Des Moines, IA

Issued

Apr 8, 2001, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)

Expired

Apr 8, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT

In force

40 min

Issued by

NWS Des Moines, IA

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Jasper County, IA

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WUUS53 KDMX 090005
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IAC099-090045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
705 PM CDT SUN APR 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JASPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 703 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRAIRIE CITY...OR ABOUT 16
  MILES EAST OF DES MOINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR PRAIRIE CITY...COLFAX AROUND 710 PM
  NEAR NEWTON AROUND 720 PM

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS IS LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA.

PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE NEAR DES MOINES.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MONDAY MORNING FOR
IOWA.

LAT...LON 4186 9335 4151 9332 4153 9276 4186 9278

SEARCY

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.