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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Quad Cities, IA
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 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.
- 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
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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</html>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
&&
MDBLocal 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
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MDBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Johnson | 37 min |
| May 9, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Cedar | 64 min |
| May 9, 11:38 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Johnson and 4 more | 8 hr |
| May 10, 3:38 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 30 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.