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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2005, 5:41 PM CST for Franklin County, Hardin County, Iowa. It was in force for 34 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, 5:41 PM CST (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2005, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Franklin County, IA, Hardin County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 5:50 PM CST | TORNADO | 4 Nnw Steamboat Rock, IA | REPORTED BY TRAINED SPOTTER. |
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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 249 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
- 1322 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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 122341 TORDMX IAC069-083-130015- /O.NEW.KDMX.TO.W.0034.051112T2341Z-051113T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 541 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HARDIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA. SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA. * UNTIL 615 PM CST. * AT 536 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF IOWA FALLS...OR 45 MILES EAST OF FORT DODGE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL BE... NEAR IOWA FALLS BY 550 PM CST. NEAR ACKLEY BY 555 PM CST. NEAR ACKLEY MUNICIPAL AIRPORT BY 600 PM CST. 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GENEVA BY 605 PM CST. THE LOCATIONS OF BUCKEYE...OWASA AND IOWA FALLS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT ARE 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 4236 9345 4236 9302 4276 9303 4276 9333 $$ VACHALEK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDMX 122354 SVSDMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 554 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 IAC069-083-130015- /O.CON.KDMX.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-051113T0015Z/ FRANKLIN IA-HARDIN IA- 554 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN HARDIN AND SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CST... AT 549 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR IOWA FALLS...OR 43 MILES WEST OF WATERLOO... AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE... NEAR ACKLEY BY 600 PM CST. NEAR ACKLEY MUNICIPAL AIRPORT BY 605 PM CST. 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GENEVA BY 610 PM CST. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR IOWA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST IOWA. LAT...LON 4236 9345 4236 9302 4276 9303 4276 9333 $$ VACHALEK
000 WWUS53 KDMX 130015 SVSDMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 615 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 IAC069-083-130025- /O.EXP.KDMX.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-051113T0015Z/ FRANKLIN IA-HARDIN IA- 615 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN HARDIN AND SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 612 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. 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. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST IOWA. LAT...LON 4236 9345 4236 9302 4276 9303 4276 9333 $$ VACHALEK
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, 5:06 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 |
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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.