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Tornado Warning 68, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 8:56 PM CDT for Davis County, Iowa. It was in force for 49 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, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Davis County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 333 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.
131 WFUS53 KDMX 250156 TORDMX IAC051-250245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 856 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 853 PM...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF TORNADOES 17 MILES WEST OF DRAKESVILLE...OR ABOUT 28 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OTTUMWA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE... 7 MILES SOUTH OF DRAKESVILLE AROUND 910 PM... NEAR BLOOMFIELD MUNICIPAL AIRPORT AROUND 915 PM AND NEAR PULASKI AROUND 925 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 4087 9264 4061 9265 4061 9222 4088 9221 $$ DONAVON
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, 7:38 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 |
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.