Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 6:44 PM CDT for Davis County, Iowa. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2003, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Davis County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1102 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
589 WFUS53 KDMX 102344 TORDMX IAC051-110030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 644 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 642 PM...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER BLOOMFIELD MUNICIPAL AIRPORT...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTH OF OTTUMWA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PULASKI AROUND 650 PM AND 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FLORIS AROUND 700 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 SATURDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN IOWA. LAT...LON 4090 9260 4059 9259 4061 9221 4090 9219 JOHNSON/SMALL $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo | 36 min |
| May 10, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wayne | 50 min |
| May 10, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose | 48 min |
| May 10, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Wayne | 44 min |
| May 10, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Poweshiek, Tama | 27 min |
| May 10, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion, Wapello | 34 min |
| May 10, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Marion | 28 min |
| May 10, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis | 46 min |
| May 10, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Poweshiek | 29 min |
| May 10, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 32 min |
| May 10, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 26 min |
| May 10, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Tama | 33 min |
| May 10, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Davis | 47 min |
| May 10, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Wapello | 38 min |
| May 10, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis | 33 min |
| May 10, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 31 min |
| May 10, 6:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Tama | 23 min |
| May 10, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk | 27 min |
| May 10, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Bremer | 23 min |
| May 10, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Bremer | 36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.