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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Quad Cities, IA

June 30, 2006Benton County, Iowa County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2006, 9:57 AM CDT for Benton County, Iowa County, Iowa. It was in force for 63 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
Jun 30, 2006, 9:57 AM CDT (14:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2006, 11:00 AM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Benton County, IA, Iowa County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Jun 30, 4:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 4:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 5:46 AM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
546 AM CDT FRI JUN 30 2006

IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007-
009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-011000-
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-
546 AM CDT FRI JUN 30 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE AREA
TODAY.  AREAS SOUTH OF A CEDAR RAPIDS...QUAD CITIES LINE WILL HAVE
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS MORNING.  A FEW OF THESE STORMS
COULD BRIEFLY STRENGTHEN ENOUGH TO PRODUCE NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THESE
STORMS SHOULD WEAKEN BY MID MORNING.

ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON.  THESE
STORMS SHOULD BE FOCUSED NORTHEAST OF A BELLE PLAINE...GALESBURG
LINE AND COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

A WARM FRONT FROM SOUTHWEST IOWA INTO NORTHEAST MISSOURI WAS ACTING
AS A FOCUS FOR THIS MORNING THUNDERSTORMS.  THIS WARM FRONT WILL
LIFT NORTH THIS MORNING...REACHING A BELLE PLAINE...GALESBURG LINE BY
LATE MORNING.   AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE MOVING SOUTHEAST THROUGH
CENTRAL AND EASTERN IOWA WILL TRIGGER ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE WARM FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. THE DAMAGING WIND
AND LARGE HAIL THREAT WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE STORMS THAT
DEVELOP ON OR CLOSE TO THE WARM FRONT.  THE SEVERE THREAT WILL BE
LIMITED TO LARGE HAIL FOR THOSE STORMS OCCURRING WELL NORTHEAST OF
THE FRONT.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT WILL DIMINISH BY THIS EVENING AS THE
UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE MOVES SOUTHEAST OF THE AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN OVER OR NEAR THE AREA THROUGH
TUESDAY...PROVIDING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SEVERAL ROUNDS OF
THUNDERSTORMS.  AT THIS TIME...MUCH OF THE AREA IS OUTLOOKED FOR A
SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WITH
ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON FOR AREAS NORTH OF A
BELLE PLAINE...GALESBURG LINE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 30, 4:53 AM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
453 AM CDT FRI JUN 30 2006

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

0443 AM     HAIL             MEMPHIS                 40.46N 92.17W
06/30/2006  E0.25 INCH       SCOTLAND           MO   PUBLIC

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DLF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 12:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVNWarren32 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.