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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2004, 5:55 PM CDT for Des Moines County, Iowa. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 18, 2004, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Des Moines County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1075 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 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 KDVN 182255 TORDVN IAC057-182345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 555 PM CDT WED AUG 18 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DES MOINES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST IOWA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 552 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LIKELY TO PRODUCE A TORNADO NEAR WEST BURLINGTON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... 7 MILES SOUTH OF KINGSTON BY 610 PM CDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IN A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST IOWA AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS. LAT...LON 4097 9129 4080 9125 4080 9110 4099 9098 $$ MCCLURE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Louisa | 42 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.