Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 235, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2005, 3:52 PM CDT for Pottawattamie County, Iowa. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2005, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2005, 4:29 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pottawattamie County, IA
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1553 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 3:15 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:15 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 315 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005 .DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THROUGH WEDNESDAY IN THE PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERN. ...SHORT TERM...TONIGHT/TUESDAY...12Z UA ANLYS SHOWED A MID LVL TROPICAL MOIST BAND EXTENDING ACROSS ERN NEBRASKA WITH AN 8 DEG DWPT AT 700 MB HERE AT 0AX. IN ADDITION A SMALL SHORTWV TROF WAS APPARENT ON STLT LIFTING NEWD INTO ERN NEBR AS OF 19Z. THESE FTRS HAVE HELP SUSTAIN CONVECTION INTO THIS AFTERNOON...THUS FAR ELEVATED THRU 1930Z. INCREASING LOW LVL CONVERGENCE BTWN HOT UNSTABLE AIR OVER OUR SRN CWA AND OUTFLOW FM CONVECTION MAY HELP STRENGTHEN ACTIVITY. IN ADDITION SLOW MOVING CDFNT WAS JUST ENTERING EXTREME NWRN CWA AS OF 1915Z. THIS BOUNDARY AND 2ND SHRTWV TROF PUSHING TWD NCNTRL NEBRASKA COULD TOUCH OFF ADDITIONAL TSTMS IN NERN NEBRASKA THROUGH EARLY EVENING AS ATMOSPHERE CONTD TO BE FAIRLY UNSTABLE ACRS THAT AREA ALSO. WL KEEP SVR MENTION MUCH OF THE ECNTRL/NERN ZONES THIS EVENING AS 12Z OAX SOUNDING SHOWED AN INVERTED V NATURE. FLOW WAS TURNING UPSLOPE ACRS NEBR PNHDL AND SOME CONVECTION WAS DVLPG UNDERNEATH THE 2ND WAVE IN NEBR SANDHILLS. BOTH NAM AND GFS HAVE CONTD TREND OF DVLPG AN MCS THERE THIS EVENING AND RACING IT EWD OVERNIGHT. CURRENT ACTIVITY COULD BE THE PRECURSOR TO THIS OR ADDITIONAL DVLPMNT MAY OCCUR LATER THIS EVENING...IN ANY EVENT WL INCREASE POPS NRN ZONES AFT 06Z AS WELL. IT APPEARS CONVECTION TNGT WL REINFORCE WARM FRONT OVER SERN NEBR THRU TUE AFTN DESPITE STRONGER UPR TROF CAUSING SFC CYCLOGENESIS OVR NERN WY BY 00Z WED. INTRODUCED POPS A LARGE PART OF THE CWA AS NAM KEPT GENERATING PCPN SWD OVR FAR ERN ZONES AND BOTH GFS AND NAM INDICATED INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE CONDS N OF THE BOUNDARY TUE AFTN. LOWERED HIGHS A FEW DEGREES N OF THE BOUNDARY AND RAISED THEM A TOUCH TO THE S. TUE NGT-THURSDAY...STRONGER SHRTWV TROF STILL FCST TO TRACK ACRS THE NRN PLAINS WED. NAM SOLUTION WITH NEXT FRONT ASSOCD WITH THIS FEATURE HAS FLIPPED TO IT NOW BEING FASTER THAN THE GFS. ECMWF HAS BEEN FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH A SLOWER FROPA...GENERALLY ENTERING SERN ZONES BY 00Z THU. GFS SUPPORTS THIS TO SOME DEGREE AND WL BE FOLLOWED WITH WIND FCST AND HIGHS...WHICH WERE KEPT SSW LONGER AND BUMPED UP ACRS THE SE RESPECTIVELY. WL CONT POPS THRU WED NGT AS SOME 850-700 MB FRONTOGENESIS LAGS THE SFC FRONT AND MUCH OF THE LOW LVL MOISTURE MAY NOT BE CLEANED OUT BY FRONT. IGNORED FOR NOW THE QPF GENERATED BY THE NAM FOR THU AND LEFT THAT PD DRY WITH COOLER TEMPS. EXTENDED DAYS 4-7...LITTLE CHANGE MADE FM PREV FCST. AFTER A BRIEF BREAK FROM THE HEAT...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO CLIMB BACK TO NORMAL AND ABOVE BY NEXT WEEKEND. WILL LEAVE FCST DRY WITH RETURN LOW LVL JET/MOISTURE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY SINCE UPR HGTS SEEM TO BE BUILDING DURING THAT TIME. HOWEVER...PRBLY WOULDNT TAKE TOO MUCH OF A WAVE ROLLING ACROSS PLAINS DURING THAT TIME TO GENERATE PCPN. A STRONGER SHORTWV STILL ADVERTISED BY 06Z/12Z GFS AND 00Z ECMWF TO TRACK ACRS SCNTRL CANADA WHICH COULD ALLOW A CDFNT TO MOVE INTO THE CWA SUNDAY. THUS WL CONT POPS FM SAT NGT THRU SUN NIGHT AND LEAVE DAY 7 DRY FOR NOW. .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. && CHERMOK
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 11:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
155 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2005
IAZ043-055-056-069-280200-
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 536 HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN WEST CENTRAL IOWA
MONONA
IN SOUTHWEST IOWA
HARRISON...SHELBY AND POTTAWATTAMIE
DEWALDNearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.