Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2005, 3:43 PM CST for Greene County, Iowa. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 2005, 3:43 PM CST (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2005, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greene County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 3:53 PM CST | HAIL 2.75 | 3 Ne Grand Junction, IA | ALL SIZES RANGING FROM NICKEL TO BASEBALL. TWO MINUTE HAIL DURATION. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 122144 TORDMX IAC073-122230- /O.NEW.KDMX.TO.W.0026.051112T2143Z-051112T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 343 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA. * UNTIL 430 PM CST. * AT 341 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF COON RAPIDS...OR 49 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT DODGE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE... 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCRANTON BY 355 PM CST. NEAR JEFFERSON BY 400 PM CST. NEAR DANA BY 415 PM CST. NEAR PATON BY 420 PM CST. THE LOCATION OF JEFFERSON MUNICIPAL AIRPORT IS ALSO IN THE PATH. 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 4187 9463 4186 9419 4220 9419 4220 9450 $$ VACHALEK
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDMX 122158 SVSDMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 358 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 IAC073-122230- /O.CON.KDMX.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-051112T2230Z/ GREENE IA- 358 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GREENE COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM CST... AT 354 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON...OR 42 MILES SOUTH OF FORT DODGE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE... NEAR JEFFERSON MUNICIPAL AIRPORT BY 405 PM CST. NEAR GRAND JUNCTION BY 410 PM CST. NEAR DANA BY 415 PM CST. NEAR PATON BY 420 PM CST. IF SEVERE WEATHER WAS OBSERVED...CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN DES MOINES AT 1-800-759-9276. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR IOWA. LAT...LON 4187 9463 4186 9419 4220 9419 4220 9450 $$ MYERS
000 WWUS53 KDMX 122209 SVSDMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 410 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 IAC073-122230- /O.CON.KDMX.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-051112T2230Z/ GREENE IA- 410 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GREENE COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM CST... AT 406 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JEFFERSON...OR 34 MILES SOUTH OF FORT DODGE... AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE... NEAR DANA BY 415 PM CST. THE LOCATIONS OF GRAND JUNCTION...JEFFERSON MUNICIPAL AIRPORT AND PATON ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. 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 4187 9463 4186 9419 4220 9419 4220 9450 $$ MYERS
000 WWUS53 KDMX 122227 SVSDMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 427 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 IAC073-122237- /O.EXP.KDMX.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-051112T2230Z/ GREENE IA- 427 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR GREENE COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 424 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. IF SEVERE WEATHER WAS OBSERVED...CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN DES MOINES AT 1-800-759-9276. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR IOWA. LAT...LON 4187 9463 4186 9419 4220 9419 4220 9450 $$
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, 3:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Audubon, Guthrie | 26 min |
| Nov 12, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair | 38 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 |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.