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Tornado Warning 69, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 12:41 PM CDT for Appanoose County, Wayne 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 27, 2004, 12:41 PM CDT (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Appanoose County, IA, Wayne County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 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 27, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
556 WFUS53 KDMX 271741 TORDMX IAC007-185-271830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1241 PM CDT THU MAY 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN APPANOOSE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 130 PM CDT * AT 1235 PM...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEYMOUR...OR ABOUT 49 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OTTUMWA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE... NEAR SEYMOUR AROUND 1245 PM... NEAR NUMA AROUND 1255 PM AND NEAR CINCINNATI AROUND 105 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN IOWA. LAT...LON 4074 9328 4058 9329 4059 9287 4075 9287 $$ SMALL/PFANNKUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 11:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 42 min |
| May 27, 11:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Taylor | 38 min |
| May 27, 11:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Ringgold, Taylor | 3 hr |
| May 27, 11:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur | 52 min |
| May 27, 11:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Decatur | 3 hr |
| May 27, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Ringgold | 45 min |
| May 27, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wayne | 45 min |
| May 27, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur | 45 min |
| May 27, 12:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Adams | 3 hr |
| May 27, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wayne | 44 min |
| May 27, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Taylor | 40 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.