Alert archive / Iowa / Snow Advisories in 2005

Snow Advisory 3, NWS Des Moines, IA

December 2, 200520 counties in Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this snow advisory at Dec 2, 2005, 3:57 AM CST for 20 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Dec 2, 2005, 2:49 PM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 2, 2005, 3:57 AM CST (09:57 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 2, 2005, 2:49 PM CST
Expired
Dec 3, 2005, 3:00 AM CST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Des Moines, IA

Counties Black Hawk County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Sac County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:56 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this snow advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this snow advisory went out at Dec 2, 3:51 AM CST, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 2, 3:51 AM CST, 6 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Nearby

Snow Advisories in Iowa, 2005Every snow advisory in 2005

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.