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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 716

September 7, 200151 counties in Iowa; Crawford County, Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 7, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT for 51 counties in Iowa; Crawford County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 7, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties

Adair County, IA, Adams County, IA, Allamakee County, IA, Appanoose County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Boone County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Butler County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Greene County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Howard County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Linn County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Madison County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Page County, IA, Polk County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Warren County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA, Crawford County, WI

Warnings issued inside it

15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXBlack Hawk, Bremer39 min
Sep 7, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningARXChickasaw, Fayette83 min
Sep 7, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNBenton, Buchanan56 min
Sep 7, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXButler25 min
Sep 7, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXBremer20 min
Sep 7, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNDelaware53 min
Sep 7, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNBuchanan31 min
Sep 7, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXFremont, Page52 min
Sep 7, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPage45 min
Sep 7, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAdams, Cass43 min
Sep 7, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXAdair, Union42 min
Sep 7, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXMadison44 min
Sep 7, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXClarke, Decatur47 min
Sep 7, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXStory52 min
Sep 7, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXDallas, Polk, Warren44 min

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 245 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2001-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1137 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2001-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 223 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1137 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
2.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCherokee, Dickinson, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more6 hr
Sep 7, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAudubon, Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery and 2 more3 hr
Sep 7, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCedar, Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson, Johnson, Jones and 1 more6 hr
Sep 7, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake and 23 more4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wisconsin, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001

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.