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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 296, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2006, 10:44 PM CDT for Worth County, Iowa. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2006, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2006, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Worth County, IA
The radar
The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KDMX 250344 SVRDMX IAC195-250445- /O.NEW.KDMX.SV.W.0296.060825T0344Z-060825T0445Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1044 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WORTH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL IOWA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1039 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTH OF LAKE MILLS TO 6 MILES WEST OF LYLE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... NORTHWOOD BY 1100 PM CDT. MANLY BY 1145 PM CDT. THE TOWNS OF JOICE...KENSETT...GRAFTON AND HANLONTOWN ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 203 AND 218. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU LIVE IN A MOBILE HOME...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 4350 9352 4350 9304 4326 9304 4326 9345 $$ COGIL
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KDMX 250422 SVSDMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1122 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 IAC195-250445- /O.CON.KDMX.SV.W.0296.000000T0000Z-060825T0445Z/ WORTH IA- 1122 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WORTH COUNTY UNTIL 1145 PM CDT... AT 1117 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES EAST OF LAKE MILLS TO 8 MILES WEST OF ST. ANSGAR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... MANLY BY 1145 PM CDT. THE TOWNS OF JOICE...KENSETT...GRAFTON AND HANLONTOWN ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 203 AND 218. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4350 9352 4350 9304 4326 9304 4326 9345 $$ COGIL
000 WWUS53 KDMX 250446 SVSDMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1145 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 IAC195-250455- /O.EXP.KDMX.SV.W.0296.000000T0000Z-060825T0445Z/ WORTH IA- 1145 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WORTH COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 1143 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT ACROSS WORTH COUNTY PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL. LAT...LON 4350 9352 4350 9304 4326 9304 4326 9345 $$ COGIL
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 Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 24, 3:35 PM CDT, 7 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 3:35 PM CDT, 7 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 335 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 .DISCUSSION... VERY UNSTBL AMS IN PLACE THOUGH CAPPED OVR IA WITH H7 TEMPS +13-15 ATTM. XPCT AMS TO REMAIN CAPPED THRU SNST WITH MUCH OF ACTVTY HOLDING N OF THE CWA. LTST WRF SINGING A DIF TUNE WITH DVLPMT OVR THE NW BTWN 03 AND 06Z. WL NEED TO WATCH THAT AS POTENTIAL IS DECENT IT WOULD BE ABLE TO GO SVR FAIRLY QUICLY. THINGS WEAKEN LATE TNGT WITH DOWN TIME XTNDG INTO TMRW AFTN. SHUD SEE REDVLPMT DURG THE AFTN IN THE SE. NXT QUES WL BE OVER THE WKND. MDLS HV SHFDT TO THE S O THE AREA OF HVR PCPN. HV KEPT PCPN IN THE SERN HLF OF THE CWA INTO SUN. SHUD BE A DRY PD AFT THAT WITH HI PRES BLDG INTO THE CNTRL U.S. FOR A FEW DAYS. TEMPS LKLY TO BE ABV 12Z MEX AS DONT FEEL COOL AIR PENETRATION WL BE ALL THAT STG GVN THE POTENTIAL DVLPMT OF ERNESTO IN THE 2 TO 7 DAY PD. .DMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 7:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 752 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 IAZ004>007-015>017-251100- EMMET-KOSSUTH-WINNEBAGO-WORTH-PALO ALTO-HANCOCK-CERRO GORDO- 752 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN IOWA...NORTH OF STATE HIGHWAY 3. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT...MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH 2 AM. THE THREAT FROM THE SEVERE STORMS WOULD INCLUDE HAIL TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH. A FEW LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY MULTIPLE STORMS COULD RECEIVE HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES BUT THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WOULD BE VERY LOCALIZED IF THEY OCCUR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SCATTERED NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AFTER MIDNIGHT. IAZ023>028-033>039-044>050-057>062-070>075-081>086-092>097-251100- POCAHONTAS-HUMBOLDT-WRIGHT-FRANKLIN-BUTLER-BREMER-SAC-CALHOUN- WEBSTER-HAMILTON-HARDIN-GRUNDY-BLACK HAWK-CRAWFORD-CARROLL-GREENE- BOONE-STORY-MARSHALL-TAMA-AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-DALLAS-POLK-JASPER- POWESHIEK-CASS-ADAIR-MADISON-WARREN-MARION-MAHASKA-ADAMS-UNION- CLARKE-LUCAS-MONROE-WAPELLO-TAYLOR-RINGGOLD-DECATUR-WAYNE- APPANOOSE-DAVIS- 752 PM CDT THU AUG 24 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA...ALONG AND SOUTH OF STATE HIGHWAY 3. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN IOWA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY INTO SUNDAY. HOWEVER...SOME STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...MAINLY IN FAR SOUTHERN IOWA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FAB
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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.