Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 101, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2004, 6:52 PM CDT for Taylor County, Iowa. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 26, 2004, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Taylor County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 7:34 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 10 N Bedford, IA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KDMX 262352 TORDMX IAC173-270045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 652 PM CDT THU AUG 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TAYLOR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 650 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF TORNADOES 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW MARKET...OR ABOUT 97 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DES MOINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE... NEAR NEW MARKET AROUND 705 PM CDT... 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEDFORD MUNICIPAL AIRPORT AROUND 720 PM CDT... NEAR GRAVITY AROUND 725 PM CDT... NEAR SHARPSBURG AROUND 740 PM CDT AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF LENOX AROUND 745 PM CDT. 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 CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR IOWA. LAT...LON 4089 9491 4059 9492 4060 9452 4089 9451 $$ SMALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hancock | 52 min |
| Aug 26, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 48 min |
| Aug 26, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Humboldt | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wright | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo, Hancock | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Humboldt | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Wright | 41 min |
| Aug 26, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Wright | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Sac | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Crawford | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Greene | 48 min |
| Aug 26, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Greene | 51 min |
| Aug 26, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Sac | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Cass | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.