Alert archive / Iowa / High Wind Warnings in 2007
High Wind Warning 2, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this high wind warning at Jul 16, 2007, 5:53 PM CDT for Palo Alto County, Pocahontas County, Iowa. It was in force for 66 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
- Jul 16, 2007, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2007, 6:59 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
Counties Palo Alto County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KDMX 162253 NPWDMX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 553 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... IAZ015-023-170100- /O.NEW.KDMX.HW.W.0002.070716T2253Z-070717T0100Z/ PALO ALTO-POCAHONTAS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EMMETSBURG...POCAHONTAS 553 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS FROM THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTH WILL PRODUCE STRONG WINDS ACROSS PARTS OF PALO ALTO AND POCAHONTAS COUNTIES THROUGH EARLY EVENING. WINDS OVER 60 MPH OCCURRED IN SPENCER SHORTLY BEFORE 5:30 PM. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL IMPACT MAINLY THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF PALO ALTO COUNTY...ALONG WITH MUCH OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ KINNEY
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KDMX 162319 NPWDMX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 619 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... IAZ015-023-170100- /O.CON.KDMX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070717T0100Z/ PALO ALTO-POCAHONTAS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EMMETSBURG...POCAHONTAS 619 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS FROM THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTH WILL PRODUCE STRONG WINDS ACROSS PARTS OF PALO ALTO AND POCAHONTAS COUNTIES THROUGH EARLY EVENING. WINDS OVER 60 MPH OCCURRED TO THE NORTHWEST IN SPENCER...AND WILL IMPACT MAINLY THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF PALO ALTO COUNTY...ALONG WITH MUCH OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. $$ KINNEY
000 WWUS73 KDMX 162359 NPWDMX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 659 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2007 IAZ015-023-170100- /O.CAN.KDMX.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070717T0100Z/ PALO ALTO-POCAHONTAS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EMMETSBURG...POCAHONTAS 659 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. OUTFLOW WINDS FROM EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS NO LONGER POSE A THREAT ACROSS PALO ALTO AND POCAHONTAS COUNTIES. $$ KINNEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll, Greene | 37 min |
| Jul 16, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet | 47 min |
| Jul 16, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Bremer, Butler | 65 min |
| Jul 16, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Kossuth | 47 min |
| Jul 16, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hancock, Kossuth | 52 min |
| Jul 16, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Black Hawk, Butler | 37 min |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Iowa, 2007Every high wind warning in 2007
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.