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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Quad Cities, IA

April 30, 2003Henry County, Louisa County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2003, 5:27 PM CDT for Henry County, Louisa County, Iowa. It was in force for 33 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: Apr 30, 2003, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Henry County, IA, Louisa County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 30, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 30, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 88 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 849 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 478 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 567 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

642 
WFUS53 KDVN 302227
TORDVN
IAC087-115-302300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
526 PM CDT WED APR 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA
  LOUISA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 515 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER WINFIELD...OR 12
  MILES NORTH OF MOUNT PLEASANT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   CAIRO BY 530 PM CDT.
   GRANDVIEW BY 555 PM CDT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT OR ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS DANGEROUS
STORM

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN IOWA AND NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS AND NORTHEAST
MISSOURI.

LAT...LON 4114 9155 4104 9144 4109 9139 4111 9112
          4130 9112 4133 9134 4118 9143

$$

SHEETS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 9:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Linn	26 min
Apr 30, 10:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Jones	42 min
Apr 30, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Scott	36 min
Apr 30, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Scott	34 min
Apr 30, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Lee	47 min
Apr 30, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Jefferson	43 min
Apr 30, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Louisa, Washington	51 min
Apr 30, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DVN	Jefferson	29 min
Apr 30, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Louisa	64 min
Apr 30, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Louisa	29 min
Apr 30, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Henry	35 min
Apr 30, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Des Moines	56 min
Apr 30, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DVN	Louisa	44 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.