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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2006, 7:57 PM CDT for Bureau County, Illinois. It was in force for 37 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 24, 2006, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2006, 8:34 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bureau County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 836 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 24, 12:38 PM CDT, 7 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 12:38 PM CDT, 7 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 1238 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2006 .SYNOPSIS... A DRY SLOT IS MOVING EAST THROUGH WESTERN IOWA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS IS APPROACHING AREAS THAT HAVE WARMED INTO THE MID 80S...AND HAVE DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 60S TO AROUND 70 OVER EASTERN IOWA. CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO FORM QUICKLY FROM MID TO LATE AFTERNOON...AND SHOULD BE SEVERE RAPIDLY AFTER FORMING. SUPERCELLS SHOULD FORM INTO A SQUALL LINE AND MOVE EAST ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY EARLY IN THE SUPERCELL STORMS...AND AGAIN WITH BOWING SEGMENTS IN THE SQUALL LINE. && .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH AND THURSDAY... THUNDERSTORMS WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST BY MID EVENING...AS WINDS TURN TO THE WEST. TOMORROW...THE UPPER LOW WILL SWEEP SOUTHEAST...AND BRING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. DUE TO HIGH DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S...SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE ISOLATED HEAVY RAINS. .LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY... DUE TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THE SHORT TERM...NO CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE THE FORECAST DAYS 3 THROUGH 7. ..ERVIN.. && .DVN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IA...NONE. IL...TORNADO WATCH TIL 01Z FOR HANCOCK AND MCDONOUGH. MO...TORNADO WATCH TIL 01Z FOR NORTHEAST MISSOURI. && ERVIN
Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 9:50 AM CDT, 10 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 950 AM CDT WED MAY 24 2006 IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007- 009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-251000- 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- 950 AM CDT WED MAY 24 2006 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... 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 STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...AND CONTINUE THROUGH MID EVENING AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE REGION. WE EXPECT MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON...WITH TEMPERATURES WARMING QUICKLY INTO THE MID 80S. MOISTURE INCREASING AHEAD OF THE FRONT INDICATED BY DEWPOINTS CLIMBING INTO THE MID AND UPPER 60S... COMBINED WITH HEATING WILL FUEL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BY MID AFTERNOON. INITIAL STORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXCEPTED TO OCCUR IN EASTERN IOWA AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI BY MID AFTERNOON GENERALLY FROM SOUTHWEST OF DUBUQUE...TO IOWA CITY...AND TO WEST OF MEMPHIS MISSOURI. THESE FIRST STORMS MAY BE SUPER CELLULAR IN NATURE...AND EVOLVE INTO A SUBSTANTIAL SQUALL LINE THAT WILL MOVE EAST AND IMPACT THE REST OF THE AREA THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE STORMS SHOULD EXIT THE FORECAST AREA AFTER 9 PM. IF TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE MID 80S...CURRENT INDICATIONS SUGGEST THAT SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE ABLE TO PRODUCE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS OF 60 TO 80 MPH WITH POTENTIALLY ISOLATED SPEEDS EVEN HIGHER THAN 80 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. ISOLATED...SHORT LIVED TORNADOES MAY OCCUR ALONG THE FRONT...OR OTHER TYPE OF BOUNDARIES THAT MAY FORM ACROSS THE AREA. IF SURFACE WINDS ARE STRONG AND REMAIN SOUTHEASTERLY AHEAD OF THE FRONT...STRONGER AND LONGER LIVED TORNADOES WOULD BE POSSIBLE. A SECONDARY THREAT WILL BE IN THE FORM OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF AN INCH OR TWO BY THURSDAY MORNING IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE REPEATED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS OUTLOOKED THE ENTIRE AREA FOR A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TODAY AND TONIGHT. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. A CONFERENCE CALL FOR EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND COUNTY OFFICIALS WILL BE CONDUCTED AT NOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY LOOKING AHEAD AT MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND...VERY WARM TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S WILL BUILD ACROSS THE REGION. THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ALONG THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THIS WARM DOME OF AIR ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS...PORTIONS OF MINNESOTA AND NORTHERN IOWA. LATEST THINKING IS OUR AREA WOULD BE AT RISK OF BEING IMPACTED BY SOME OF THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LATE FRIDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER FORECASTS AND UPDATES CONCERNING THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL FOR THE UPCOMING HOLIDAY WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. KUHL/ERVIN
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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.