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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 311, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2004, 1:58 AM CDT for Polk County, Iowa. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2004, 1:58 AM CDT (06:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2004, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Polk County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 1429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 31, 10:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 10:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1000 PM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004 .SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT-TUE NIGHT) UPDATED ZONES OUT TO REFLECT THE EXPIRATION OF THE TOR WATCH AND THE SVR THAT REPLACES IT. THE FRONT HAS LIFTED INTO MN AND THE BEST MSTR CONVERGENCE AND THETA-E ADVECTION FM SW MN INTO ECEN MN. FNT MAY SAG INTO NRN IA BUT RUC HAS PEGGED THIS SO FAR AND IT CONTINUES TO SUGGEST CONVECTION IN MN WITH SOME DRIBBLING INTO IA AFT 08Z. CURRENT CONVECTION THAT WAS OVER SW MN DROPPING S AS SUGGESTED BY THE CORFIDI VECTORS. THIS SHOULD REMAIN OUT OF OUR CWA AND I AM NOT EXPECTING TO SEE MUCH. SOME DEVELOPMENT SHOULD OCCUR WITH THE LLJ BUT WE WILL SEE WHERE THAT OCCURS. NO CHANGES MADE TO ANY OTHER PARAMETERS EXCEPT LOWER POPS SOUTH AND RAISE TEMPS A DEGREE OR SO. .DMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE && FAB
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 10:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1018 PM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004 IAZ004>007-015>017-023-024-011100- CERRO GORDO-EMMET-HANCOCK-HUMBOLDT-KOSSUTH-PALO ALTO-POCAHONTAS- WINNEBAGO-WORTH- 1018 PM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A PORTION OF CENTRAL IOWA... GENERALLY NORTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 20. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST IOWA WILL GRADUALLY SINK TO THE SOUTH OR SOUTHEAST OVERNIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 20. STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH A FEW STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE SEVERAL PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THROUGH FRIDAY. THE HIGHEST RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT...MAINLY OVER AREAS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE TONIGHT. IAZ025>028-033>039-044>050-057>062-011100- AUDUBON-BLACK HAWK-BOONE-BREMER-BUTLER-CALHOUN-CARROLL-CRAWFORD- DALLAS-FRANKLIN-GREENE-GRUNDY-GUTHRIE-HAMILTON-HARDIN-JASPER- MARSHALL-POLK-POWESHIEK-SAC-STORY-TAMA-WEBSTER-WRIGHT- 1018 PM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A PORTION OF CENTRAL IOWA... GENERALLY SOUTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 20 TO INTERSTATE 80. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PUSH INTO CENTRAL IOWA BETWEEN HIGHWAY 20 TO INTERSTATE 80 AFTER MIDNIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WIND BUT THE STORMS SHOULD STAY BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE SEVERAL PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THROUGH FRIDAY. THE HIGHEST RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT...MAINLY OVER AREAS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TONIGHT BUT MAY BE REQUIRED SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IAZ070>075-081>086-092>097-011100- ADAIR-ADAMS-APPANOOSE-CASS-CLARKE-DAVIS-DECATUR-LUCAS-MADISON- MAHASKA-MARION-MONROE-RINGGOLD-TAYLOR-UNION-WAPELLO-WARREN-WAYNE- 1018 PM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A PORTION OF CENTRAL IOWA... GENERALLY SOUTH INTERSTATE 80. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE SEVERAL PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THROUGH FRIDAY. THE HIGHEST RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT...MAINLY OVER AREAS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FAB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 1, 12:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1255 AM CDT SUN AUG 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1248 AM TSTM WND GST LAKE CITY 42.27N 94.73W
08/01/2004 60 MPH CALHOUN IA LAW ENFORCEMENT
CALHOUN COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED 60 MPH WIND GUST WHILE IN
LAKE CITY.
&&
FABLocal storm report, Aug 1, 1:50 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Sac | 48 min |
| Aug 1, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cass | 41 min |
| Aug 1, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 38 min |
| Aug 1, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.