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Tornado Warning 65, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 7:38 PM CDT for Jasper County, Iowa. It was in force for 52 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, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jasper County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 275 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.
000 WFUS53 KDMX 250038 TORDMX IAC099-250130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 738 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 734 PM...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF REASNOR...OR ABOUT 28 MILES EAST OF DES MOINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE... 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAMBS GROVE AROUND 740 PM... 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEWTON MUNICIPAL AIRPORT AROUND 745 PM... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF SULLY AROUND 750 PM... 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KELLOGG AROUND 755 PM AND NEAR OAKLAND ACRES AROUND 800 PM. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MONDAY EVENING FOR IOWA. LAT...LON 4184 9334 4152 9330 4152 9277 4186 9278 $$ SMALL
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, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Warren | 30 min |
| 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, 7:42 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.