Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 589
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 25, 2003, 12:05 PM CDT for 11 counties in Illinois; 32 counties in Iowa; 20 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2003, 12:05 PM CDT (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 63 counties
Appanoose County, IA, Benton County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Scott County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Washington County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Carroll County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Columbia County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Grant County, WI, Green County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Richland County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Vernon County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:04 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.
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Crawford | 55 min |
| Jun 25, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Richland | 52 min |
| Jun 25, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clayton | 48 min |
| Jun 25, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Grant | 57 min |
| Jun 25, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Marion | 55 min |
| Jun 25, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sauk | 53 min |
| Jun 25, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Linn | 37 min |
| Jun 25, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Delaware | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Iowa | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Johnson, Linn | 53 min |
| Jun 25, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Dubuque | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wapello | 54 min |
| Jun 25, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake, Marquette | 59 min |
| Jun 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Rock | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry, Lee | 41 min |
| Jun 25, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Louisa | 58 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 875 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 11:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Lee and 7 more | 115 min |
| Jun 25, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hancock | 5 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 70 more | 113 min |
| Jun 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 44 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lyon, Sioux | 5 hr |
| Jun 24, 10:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux | 93 min |
| Jun 24, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 25, 12:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Crawford and 12 more | 113 min |
| Jun 25, 10:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 24 more | 114 min |
| Jun 25, 11:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Clay, Emmet, Greene and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 24, 7:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burnett, Dunn, Pierce, Polk, Saint Croix | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barron, Burnett, Douglas, Dunn, Pierce, Polk and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Dodge, Florence, Fond du Lac and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee and 10 more | 91 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.