Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2005, 3:19 PM CST for Audubon County, Guthrie County, Iowa. It was in force for 26 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
- Nov 12, 2005, 3:19 PM CST (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2005, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Audubon County, IA, Guthrie County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 1:44 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 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 122118 TORDMX IAC009-077-122145- /O.NEW.KDMX.TO.W.0025.051112T2119Z-051112T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 319 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN AUDUBON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA. WESTERN GUTHRIE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA. * UNTIL 345 PM CST. * AT 315 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUDUBON...OR 61 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE... 5 MILES WEST OF BAYARD BY 345 PM CST. 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 4152 9490 4151 9451 4186 9451 4186 9488 $$ VACHALEK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDMX 122131 SVSDMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 332 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 IAC009-077-122145- /O.CON.KDMX.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-051112T2145Z/ GUTHRIE IA-AUDUBON IA- 332 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN AUDUBON AND WESTERN GUTHRIE COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM CST... AT 328 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF GUTHRIE CENTER...OR 56 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE... NEAR BAYARD BY 345 PM CST. IF SEVERE WEATHER WAS OBSERVED...CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN DES MOINES AT 1-800-759-9276. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR IOWA. LAT...LON 4152 9490 4151 9451 4186 9451 4186 9488 $$ MYERS
000 WWUS53 KDMX 122145 SVSDMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 345 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 IAC009-077-122153- /O.EXP.KDMX.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-051112T2145Z/ GUTHRIE IA-AUDUBON IA- 345 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN AUDUBON AND WESTERN GUTHRIE COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 345 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING ARE MOVING OUT OF THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. IF SEVERE WEATHER WAS OBSERVED...CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN DES MOINES AT 1-800-759-9276. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR IOWA. LAT...LON 4152 9490 4151 9451 4186 9451 4186 9488 $$ MYERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 4:32 AM CST | Wind Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 35 more | 34 hr |
| Nov 12, 2:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cass | 21 min |
| Nov 12, 2:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 34 min |
| Nov 12, 3:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Audubon, Guthrie | 25 min |
| Nov 12, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair | 38 min |
| Nov 12, 3:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Greene | 47 min |
| Nov 12, 3:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas, Guthrie | 39 min |
| Nov 12, 3:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Dallas, Guthrie | 32 min |
| Nov 12, 4:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Hamilton, Webster | 51 min |
| Nov 12, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone, Hamilton, Webster | 30 min |
| Nov 12, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Boone, Dallas | 30 min |
| Nov 12, 4:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Story | 34 min |
| Nov 12, 4:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Wright | 48 min |
| Nov 12, 5:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Hamilton | 24 min |
| Nov 12, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Jasper, Polk | 27 min |
| Nov 12, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Hardin | 22 min |
| Nov 12, 5:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Franklin, Hardin | 34 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.