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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Quad Cities, IA

May 9, 2006Scott County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2006, 8:40 PM CDT for Scott County, Iowa. It was in force for 65 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
May 9, 2006, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 2006, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Scott County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 10 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2006-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 322 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2006-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
322 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
907 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 9, 3:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
305 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006

.SYNOPSIS...
AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF COOL AND UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL BE SEEN ACROSS
THE REGION THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. TEMPERATURES ARE
EXPECTED TO BE BELOW NORMAL.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
THE MCS THAT FIRED OVER THE PLAINS LAST NIGHT GENERATED A NICE MCV.
THIS MCV CAUSED A NEW MCS TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING
WHICH IS CURRENTLY MOVING INTO WISCONSIN. THE QUESTION NOW IS WHAT
WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. MODELS FINALLY DISCOVERED
THE VORT MAX OVER THE PLAINS WITH THE 12Z RUNS BUT INDICATE IT NOT
DOING MUCH. SATELLITE TRENDS INDICATE CELLULAR CU OVER IOWA THAT
DOES NOT LOOK REAL HEALTHY FOR ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT. RADAR HAS
SOME SHRA AND POSSIBLE TSRA FROM NORTHERN IOWA INTO SOUTHEAST
MINNESOTA. WE SHOULD SEE SOME SCATTERED SHRA AND POSSIBLE TSRA
DEVELOP LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING BUT THE SEVERE THREAT LOOKS TO
BE MINIMAL.

MODELS CONTINUE TO HAVE DISAGREEMENTS ON WHAT WILL OCCUR OVER THE
NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THEY DO AGREE ON A DEEP CUT OFF UPPER LOW
DEVELOPING OVER OR VERY NEAR THE AREA. 12Z ECMWF/UKMET/ETA REV UP
THE SURFACE LOW BY THURSDAY MORNING WITH NEAR PERFECT PHASING. NGM
IS MUCH WEAKER BUT HAS A LOW CLUSTERED IN THE SAME GENERAL AREA. GFS
LOOKS TO BE AN OUTLIER WITH ITS STRONG LOW MUCH FURTHER NORTH. NOT
SURE IF I BELIEVE THE STRENGTH OF THE LOW (980-990 DEPENDING ON THE
MODEL) BUT A LOCATION SOMEWHERE NEAR KBEH LOOKS ABOUT RIGHT. SYSTEM
TO BECOME VERTICALLY STACKED AND MEANDER AROUND SOUTHERN LAKE
MICHIGAN FOR MUCH OF THE WEEKEND BEFORE DEPARTING. NET RESULT IS
CONSIDERABLE CLOUDS WITH SOME THREAT OF RAIN FOR SEVERAL DAYS. HAVE
OPTED TO GO WITH SILENT 20 POPS FOR FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY DUE TO
THE PROXIMITY OF THE UPPER LOW WITH VORT MAXES ROTATING AROUND IT. I
WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE SCATTERED SHRA DEVELOP DURING THE
DAYLIGHT HOURS DURING THIS TIME PERIOD.

TEMPERATURES TO BE BELOW NORMAL IN THE THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY TIME
PERIOD WITH A RECOVERY TO NEAR NORMAL BY NEXT TUESDAY.

&&

.DVN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IA...NONE.
IL...NONE.
MO...NONE.

08
Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 3:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
349 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006

IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-
009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-101000-
BENTON IA-BUCHANAN IA-BUREAU IL-CARROLL IL-CEDAR IA-CLARK MO-
CLINTON IA-DELAWARE IA-DES MOINES IA-DUBUQUE IA-HANCOCK IL-
HENDERSON IL-HENRY IA-HENRY IL-IOWA IA-JACKSON IA-JEFFERSON IA-
JO DAVIESS IL-JOHNSON IA-JONES IA-KEOKUK IA-LEE IA-LINN IA-LOUISA IA-
MCDONOUGH IL-MERCER IL-MUSCATINE IA-PUTNAM IL-ROCK ISLAND IL-
SCOTLAND MO-SCOTT IA-STEPHENSON IL-VAN BUREN IA-WARREN IL-
WASHINGTON IA-WHITESIDE IL-
349 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
ILLINOIS...NORTHWEST ILLINOIS...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST
CENTRAL IOWA...NORTHEAST IOWA...SOUTHEAST IOWA AND NORTHEAST
MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING.  AT THIS TIME...THOUGH THERE IS ENOUGH INSTABILITY FOR
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...IT APPEARS THAT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH LIFT
OR MID LEVEL SUPPORT FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO INITIATE ALONG AND AHEAD OF
THE FRONT. A FEW ISOLATED STORMS MAY STILL FORM IN THE IMMEDIATE
VICINITY OF THE FRONT.  THESE STORMS MAY STILL BE ABLE TO PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BUT THEY SHOULD BE ISOLATED IN
NATURE...AND SHOULD BE LIMITED TO BETWEEN 4 AND 8 PM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AS A STRONG UPPER
LEVEL LOW MOVES OVER THE AREA. CONDITIONS MAY BE FAVORABLE FOR
STORMS TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

THERE IS A LOW PROBABILITY OF SPOTTER ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.

LE

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 9, 7:47 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 9, 8:04 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
804 PM CDT TUE MAY 09 2006

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

0755 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     1 W WEST BRANCH         41.67N 91.37W
05/09/2006                   CEDAR              IA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

MDB
Local storm report, May 9, 8:28 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
828 PM CDT TUE MAY 09 2006

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

0655 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     NORTH LIBERTY           41.74N 91.61W
05/09/2006                   JOHNSON            IA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            FUNNEL CLOUD WITH POSSIBLE BRIEF TOUCHDOWN BETWEEN NORTH
            LIBERTY AND INTERSTATE 380

&&

MDB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNJohnson37 min
May 9, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVNCedar64 min
May 9, 11:38 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDVNCedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Johnson and 4 more8 hr
May 10, 3:38 PM CDTWind AdvisoryDVNBenton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more30 hr

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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.