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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2005, 5:06 PM CST for Hamilton County, Iowa. It was in force for 24 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, 5:06 PM CST (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2005, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hamilton County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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, 5:30 PM CST | TORNADO | 2 Sse Williams, IA | DELAYED REPORT. TORNADO DAMAGE TO SEVERAL HOG CONFINEMENTS. THE CONFINEMENTS WERE DESTROYED. |
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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 254 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 122306 TORDMX IAC079-122330- /O.NEW.KDMX.TO.W.0032.051112T2306Z-051112T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 506 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA. * UNTIL 530 PM CST. * AT 502 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JEWELL...OR 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT DODGE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTY...INCLUDING THE LOCATIONS OF JEWELL AND ELLSWORTH. REPORT TORNADOES...WIND IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH...HAIL LARGER THAN ONE HALF INCH...OR STORM DAMAGE TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES AT 1-800-759-9276. LAT...LON 4231 9370 4221 9370 4228 9348 4249 9350 $$ MYERS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KDMX 122318 SVSDMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 518 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 IAC079-122330- /O.CON.KDMX.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-051112T2330Z/ HAMILTON IA- 518 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM CST... AT 515 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JEWELL...OR 32 MILES EAST OF FORT DODGE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN HAMILTON COUNTY. IF SEVERE WEATHER WAS OBSERVED...CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN DES MOINES AT 1-800-759-9276. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR IOWA. LAT...LON 4231 9370 4221 9370 4228 9348 4249 9350 $$ 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, 3:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DMX | Audubon, Guthrie | 26 min |
| Nov 12, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair | 38 min |
| Nov 12, 3:43 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, 5:18 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.