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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 311, NWS Des Moines, IA

September 16, 2006Audubon County, Cass County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2006, 10:55 PM CDT for Audubon County, Cass County, Iowa. It was in force for 35 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: Sep 16, 2006, 10:55 PM CDT (03:55 UTC)
Expired: Sep 16, 2006, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Audubon County, IA, Cass County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 16, 8:34 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 16, 10:02 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1002 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0957 PM     HAIL             2 S ALGONA              43.04N 94.23W
09/16/2006  E0.88 INCH       KOSSUTH            IA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

JJOHNSON

Local storm report, Sep 16, 10:05 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 16, 10:11 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1011 PM CDT SAT SEP 16 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0955 PM     HAIL             ALGONA                  43.07N 94.23W
09/16/2006  E0.88 INCH       KOSSUTH            IA   AMATEUR RADIO

&&

COGIL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 16, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	38 min
Sep 16, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun	20 min
Sep 16, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Crawford	36 min
Sep 16, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Pocahontas	34 min
Sep 16, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Pocahontas	30 min
Sep 16, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto	40 min
Sep 16, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Emmet	39 min
Sep 16, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hancock, Kossuth	51 min
Sep 16, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun	43 min
Sep 16, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Carroll, Crawford	41 min
Sep 16, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Humboldt, Webster	43 min
Sep 16, 11:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Greene	41 min
Sep 16, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Carroll	47 min
Sep 16, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hancock, Wright	56 min
Sep 16, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Guthrie	40 min
Sep 16, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon, Cass	30 min
Sep 16, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Cerro Gordo	48 min
Sep 16, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hamilton, Webster	45 min
Sep 16, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Greene	34 min
Sep 17, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adams, Taylor	35 min
Sep 17, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hardin	35 min
Sep 17, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Guthrie, Union	47 min
Sep 17, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas, Madison	37 min
Sep 17, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone	43 min
Sep 17, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Story	42 min
Sep 17, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hamilton, Hardin	48 min
Sep 17, 2:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Grundy	33 min
Sep 17, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Marshall	28 min
Sep 17, 2:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Appanoose, Wayne	36 min
Sep 17, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Appanoose, Davis	45 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.