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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2002, 8:58 PM CDT for Taylor County, Iowa. It was in force for 47 min. 8 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2002, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Taylor County, IA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | New Market, IA | |
| Jul 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | New Market, IA | |
| Jul 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Bedford, IA | |
| Jul 26, 9:07 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Bedford, IA | |
| Jul 26, 9:07 PM CDT | Hail 1 | New Market, IA | |
| Jul 26, 9:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Bedford, IA | |
| Jul 26, 9:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Bedford, IA | |
| Jul 26, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | New Market, IA | Touched down in open country with intermittent track. Did some damage to a house east of Bedford. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
301 WFUS53 KDMX 270158 TORDSM IAC173-270245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 857 PM CDT FRI JUL 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 856 PM...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF NEW MARKET...OR ABOUT 66 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COUNCIL BLUFFS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE... 6 MILES SOUTH OF BEDFORD AROUND 915 PM AND 5 MILES SOUTH OF BLOCKTON AROUND 945 PM. THE TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TAYLOR WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM. THIS IS A HAZARDOUS SITUATION. SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT...OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE OR IN A CAR...SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA. LAT...LON 4080 9493 4059 9495 4057 9449 4077 9449 JOHNSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Taylor | 60 min |
| Jul 26, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 36 min |
| Jul 26, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper | 47 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.