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Tornado Warning 61, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT for Warren County, Iowa. It was in force for 30 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 24, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Warren County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
| May 24, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
287 WFUS53 KDMX 250015 TORDMX IAC181-250045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 715 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 714 PM...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF MILO...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTH OF DES MOINES...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE... NEAR MILO AROUND 725 PM AND 8 MILES SOUTH OF SANDYVILLE AROUND 735 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. LAT...LON 4148 9358 4119 9358 4119 9337 4149 9336 $$ D/C
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper | 57 min |
| May 24, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 54 min |
| May 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Adair, Clarke, Lucas, Union, Wayne | 18 hr |
| May 24, 7:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Jasper | 18 hr |
| May 24, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Decatur | 67 min |
| May 24, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 33 min |
| May 24, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 47 min |
| May 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Decatur | 60 min |
| May 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Jasper | 52 min |
| May 24, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Appanoose | 48 min |
| May 24, 7:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 18 hr |
| May 24, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wayne | 67 min |
| May 24, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Lucas | 47 min |
| May 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello | 18 hr |
| May 24, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska | 43 min |
| May 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Monroe | 57 min |
| May 24, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Appanoose | 23 min |
| May 24, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Davis | 49 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.