Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 85, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2004, 10:59 AM CDT for Crawford County, Iowa. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 16, 2004, 10:59 AM CDT (15:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crawford County, IA
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 161559 TORDMX IAC047-161630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1059 AM CDT WED JUN 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 1130 AM CDT * AT 1055 AM...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF DELOIT...OR ABOUT 67 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT DODGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE... NEAR DELOIT NOW 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIRON AROUND 1105 AM. 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 4201 9567 4201 9512 4220 9511 4221 9567 $$ SMALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 11:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Sac | 38 min |
| Jun 16, 12:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Sac | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Sac | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 1:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Calhoun | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 1:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Webster | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Webster | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Humboldt | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Webster | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Wright | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 3:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Franklin | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Decatur | 56 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.