Tornado Warning 10, NWS Des Moines, IA

Issued

Apr 8, 2001, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)

Expired

Apr 8, 2001, 10:05 PM CDT

In force

31 min

Issued by

NWS Des Moines, IA

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ringgold County, IA

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
WFUS53 KDMX 090233
TORDSM
IAC159-090305-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
934 PM CDT SUN APR 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RINGGOLD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA

* UNTIL 1005 PM CDT

* AT 933 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER MOUNT AYR...OR ABOUT 71 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DES
  MOINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
  NEAR MOUNT AYR AROUND 940 PM

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

IF IN MOBILE HOME OR NON-MOVING VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GO TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...GET INTO THE
NEAREST DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.


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

LAT...LON 4090 9448 4058 9447 4059 9403 4090 9402

SEARCY

Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes 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.