Alert archive / Iowa / Freezing Rain Advisories in 2006
Freezing Rain Advisory 2, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this freezing rain advisory at Feb 15, 2006, 3:27 PM CST for 9 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Feb 16, 2006, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2006, 3:27 PM CST (21:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2006, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2006, 10:45 AM CST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
Counties Appanoose County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Wayne County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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 nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 1577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freezing rain advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freezing rain advisory went out at Feb 15, 3:00 PM CST, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 3:00 PM CST, 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 6:07 AM CST, 9 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 607 AM CST WED FEB 15 2006 IAZ004>007-015>017-023>028-033>039-044>050-161200- EMMET-KOSSUTH-WINNEBAGO-WORTH-PALO ALTO-HANCOCK-CERRO GORDO- POCAHONTAS-HUMBOLDT-WRIGHT-FRANKLIN-BUTLER-BREMER-SAC-CALHOUN- WEBSTER-HAMILTON-HARDIN-GRUNDY-BLACK HAWK-CRAWFORD-CARROLL-GREENE- BOONE-STORY-MARSHALL-TAMA- 607 AM CST WED FEB 15 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 30. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SNOW WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS EVENING. LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SNOW WILL BECOME HEAVY AND CONTINUE THROUGH LATE THURSDAY. HEAVY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED BEFORE THE SNOW ENDS THURSDAY EVENING. STRONG NORTH WINDS WILL PRODUCE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW...ESPECIALLY IN OPEN AREAS. BITTERLY COLD AIR WILL FOLLOW THIS STORM WITH TEMPERATURES WELL BELOW NORMAL INTO THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE APPRECIATED. IAZ057>062-070>073-081-082-092-161200- AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-DALLAS-POLK-JASPER-POWESHIEK-CASS-ADAIR-MADISON- WARREN-ADAMS-UNION-TAYLOR- 607 AM CST WED FEB 15 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 30...AND NORTH OF AN OSKALOOSA TO BEDFORD LINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. A MIX OF SNOW AND SLEET OR FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL BEGIN THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. LIGHT ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED WITH ACCUMULATIONS LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH. THE PRECIPITATION WILL MAKE UNTREATED ROADWAYS HAZARDOUS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SNOW WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE ACCUMULATIONS CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THE DAY. STRONG NORTH WINDS WILL ALSO PRODUCE BLOWING SNOW REDUCING VISIBILITIES...ESPECIALLY IN OPEN AREAS. BITTERLY COLD AIR WILL THEN MOVE INTO THE AREA WITH TEMPERATURES WELL BELOW NORMAL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. ICE AND SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE APPRECIATED. IAZ074-075-083>086-093>097-161200- MARION-MAHASKA-CLARKE-LUCAS-MONROE-WAPELLO-RINGGOLD-DECATUR-WAYNE- APPANOOSE-DAVIS- 607 AM CST WED FEB 15 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA SOUTH OF AN OSKALOOSA TO BEDFORD LINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PERIODS OF RAIN...FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET WILL BEGIN THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT. LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH ARE EXPECTED. THE PRECIPITATION WILL MAKE UNTREATED ROADWAYS HAZARDOUS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY PERIODS OF FREEZING RAIN...FREEZING DRIZZLE OR SLEET WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY. ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO A TENTH OF AN INCH ARE EXPECTED ARE EXPECTED MAKING TRAVEL HAZARDOUS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE APPRECIATED. RUSSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 11:18 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll and 21 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:27 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 25 more | 27 hr |
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.