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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Des Moines, IA

June 22, 2007Dallas County, Polk County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2007, 2:40 PM CDT for Dallas County, Polk County, Iowa. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2007, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2007, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dallas County, IA, Polk County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 22, 3:10 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Urbandale, IA	INTERSTATE 35 / 80 AND DOUGLAS IN URBANDALE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 30 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 22, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 222 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -370 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDMX 221940
SVRDMX
IAC049-153-222030-
/O.NEW.KDMX.SV.W.0173.070622T1940Z-070622T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
240 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DALLAS COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA...
  SOUTHWESTERN POLK COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DES MOINES...

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 237 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  WAUKEE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES...AND MOVING EAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLIVE AND GRIMES BY 250 PM CDT...
  WEST DES MOINES BY 255 PM CDT...
  URBANDALE AND WINDSOR HEIGHTS BY 300 PM CDT...
  JOHNSTON BY 305 PM CDT...
  DES MOINES BY 315 PM CDT...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 115 AND 138.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 68 AND 89.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 235 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 14.

MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU LIVE IN A
MOBILE HOME...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR IOWA.

LAT...LON 4170 9370 4171 9357 4152 9355 4151 9391
      4178 9400

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KDMX 221959
SVSDMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
259 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

IAC049-153-222030-
/O.CON.KDMX.SV.W.0173.000000T0000Z-070622T2030Z/
POLK IA-DALLAS IA-
259 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM CDT
FOR EASTERN DALLAS AND SOUTHWESTERN POLK COUNTIES...

AT 258 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR GRIMES...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DES MOINES...
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  URBANDALE...WINDSOR HEIGHTS AND WEST DES MOINES BY 305 PM CDT...
  JOHNSTON BY 310 PM CDT...
  8 MILES NORTH OF DES MOINES INT AIRPORT BY 315 PM CDT...
  SAYLORVILLE AND DES MOINES BY 320 PM CDT...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 115 AND 138.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 68 AND 89.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 235 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 14.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR IOWA.

LAT...LON 4170 9370 4171 9357 4152 9355 4151 9391
      4178 9400

$$

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 Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 21, 11:45 PM CDT, 14 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 11:45 PM CDT, 14 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED AVIATION SECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1145 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2007

.DISCUSSION...
MAIN FOCUS IS ON SEVERE WEATHER IN SHORT TERM HOWEVER FOR FRIDAY
AFTER TODAYS RAIN MAY BECOME NECESSARY TO ISSUE FFA ON FRIDAY.
ATTM MCS ROLLING DOWN NORTHWESTERLY FLOW AND WITH HELP OF VERY
UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND PLENTY OF CAPE AS WELL AS SEVERAL OUTFLOW
BOUNDARIES PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER IN FORM OF LARGE HAIL.  TONIGHT
AS SHORTWAVE MOVES DOWN THE RIDGE WILL FURTHER ENHANCE DEVELOPMENT
WITH LIKELIHOOD OF HEAVY RAIN THOUGH AREA OF HEAVY RAIN MAY BE
SMALL.  GUIDANCE WOULD SUGGEST FIRST ROUND OF RAIN CAN BE TAKEN
EASILY WITHOUT LIMITED PROBLEMS IT WILL BE SECOND ROUND TOMORROW
THAT MAY BRING ABOUT FLASH FLOODING.  ON FRIDAY THINGS RELOAD AND
UPPER LOW WILL DRIFT ACROSS THE AREA TO TRIGGER DEVELOPMENT.  WONDER
ON FRIDAY HOW MUCH MODELS ARE GETTING CHOKED ON FEEDBACK THOUGH WITH
PWS IN 1.7-2.2 WILL FURTHER AID HEAVY RAIN PROCESSES.  LATEST MODEL
RUNS HAVE CONTINUED TO TREND MUCH SLOWER WITH RAIN NOW LINGERING FOR
DAY ON SATURDAY.  AFTER SATURDAY LONG TERM MODELS FORECAST UPPER
RIDGE TO AMPLIFY AND WESTERLIES HEAD NORTH WITH ONLY SMALL CHANCES
FOR ANY RAIN LATE IN THE PERIOD AS SEVERAL WEAK VORTS SLIP UNDER THE
RIDGE.  BELIEVE THIS FORECAST TO BE MOSTLY DRY THOUGH HAVE LEFT
SLIGHT CHANCES IN DAYS 6 AND 7.  EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO REMAIN VERY
SUMMER LIKE WITH HIGHS AROUND 90.

&&

.AVIATION 22/06Z...

DIFFICULT FORECASTING CEILING AND THUNDERSTORM TRENDS WITH SURFACE
BOUNDARY REMAINING NEARLY STATIONARY FROM SE IA INTO W CNTRL IA.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOST LIKELY TO THE NORTH OF THIS BOUNDARY. BETWEEN
CONVECTIVE COMPLEX EXITING IL AND THE NEXT ONE OVER NEBRASKA...COULD
BE ENOUGH CLEAR SKIES TO ALLOW VSBY TO DROP BRIEFLY IN FOG OR HAZE.
VFR SHOWERS ARE LIKELY TO PRECEDE A PERIOD OF EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS
AND MVFR CONDITIONS CENTERED IN THE 09-12Z TIME FRAME. SHOULD BE A
BREAK DURING THE MORNING WITH QUICK AND FAIRLY WIDESPREAD AFTERNOON
DEVELOPMENT CENTERED ON THE REMAINING BOUNDARY EXACT LOCATION OF
WHICH WILL BE PINNED DOWN IN LATER UPDATES.

&

.DMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

LONG TERM...FORSTER
AVIATION...JUNGBLUTH

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 1:40 PM CDT, 1 hour before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
140 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

IAZ004>007-015>017-023>028-033>039-044>050-057>062-070>075-
081>086-092>097-231045-
EMMET-KOSSUTH-WINNEBAGO-WORTH-PALO ALTO-HANCOCK-CERRO GORDO-
POCAHONTAS-HUMBOLDT-WRIGHT-FRANKLIN-BUTLER-BREMER-SAC-CALHOUN-
WEBSTER-HAMILTON-HARDIN-GRUNDY-BLACK HAWK-CRAWFORD-CARROLL-GREENE-
BOONE-STORY-MARSHALL-TAMA-AUDUBON-GUTHRIE-DALLAS-POLK-JASPER-
POWESHIEK-CASS-ADAIR-MADISON-WARREN-MARION-MAHASKA-ADAMS-UNION-
CLARKE-LUCAS-MONROE-WAPELLO-TAYLOR-RINGGOLD-DECATUR-WAYNE-
APPANOOSE-DAVIS-
140 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ALL OF CENTRAL IOWA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. SOME SEVERE
STORMS WILL BE LIKELY WITH HAIL TO AN INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND
GUSTS OF 60 MPH POSSIBLE. ALTHOUGH QUITE UNLIKELY...A BRIEF TORNADO
TOUCH DOWN IS A POSSIBILITY. THE CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL END BY AROUND MIDNIGHT...HOWEVER LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE
POSSIBLE SOUTHEAST OF A WATERLOO TO BEDFORD LINE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY SATURDAY MORNING...CAN BE
EXPECTED SOUTHEAST OF A MASON CITY TO ATLANTIC LINE. THE NEXT
CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ON TUESDAY NIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF
THE STATE.  AT THIS TIME IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE SEVERITY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH
MIDNIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 10:09 AM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1009 AM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

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

0300 PM     HAIL             5 S CORWITH             42.92N 93.96W
06/21/2007  E2.00 INCH       HANCOCK            IA   NSSL-SHAVE

0304 PM     HAIL             4 S CORWITH             42.93N 93.96W
06/21/2007  E1.75 INCH       HANCOCK            IA   NSSL-SHAVE

0310 PM     HAIL             4 SE CORWITH            42.95N 93.90W
06/21/2007  E1.75 INCH       HANCOCK            IA   NSSL-SHAVE

0315 PM     HAIL             3 N RENWICK             42.87N 93.98W
06/21/2007  E2.00 INCH       HUMBOLDT           IA   NSSL-SHAVE

0315 PM     HAIL             3 NE RENWICK            42.86N 93.94W
06/21/2007  E1.75 INCH       WRIGHT             IA   NSSL-SHAVE

0315 PM     HAIL             4 NE RENWICK            42.87N 93.92W
06/21/2007  E1.75 INCH       WRIGHT             IA   NSSL-SHAVE

0320 PM     HAIL             4 SE CORWITH            42.95N 93.90W
06/21/2007  E1.75 INCH       HANCOCK            IA   NSSL-SHAVE

0330 PM     HAIL             4 NE RENWICK            42.87N 93.92W
06/21/2007  E2.00 INCH       WRIGHT             IA   NSSL-SHAVE

&&

JOHNSON

Local storm report, Jun 22, 1:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
136 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

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

0134 PM     HAIL             4 W CARROLL AIRPORT     42.06N 94.87W
06/22/2007  E0.75 INCH       CARROLL            IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PODRAZIK

Local storm report, Jun 22, 1:45 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
145 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

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

0131 PM     TSTM WND GST     CARROLL                 42.07N 94.86W
06/22/2007  E65 MPH          CARROLL            IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PODRAZIK

Local storm report, Jun 22, 1:48 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
148 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

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

0143 PM     HAIL             3 SE OGDEN              42.01N 93.99W
06/22/2007  M0.88 INCH       BOONE              IA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

PODRAZIK

Local storm report, Jun 22, 2:03 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
203 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

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

0158 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     7 E BERKLEY             41.95N 93.98W
06/22/2007                   BOONE              IA   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

PODRAZIK

Local storm report, Jun 22, 2:10 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
210 PM CDT FRI JUN 22 2007

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

0143 PM     HAIL             5 SE OGDEN              41.99N 93.96W
06/22/2007  E0.88 INCH       BOONE              IA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

SEARCY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Davis	39 min
Jun 22, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Carroll	39 min
Jun 22, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone	45 min
Jun 22, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Greene	47 min
Jun 22, 1:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Boone	40 min
Jun 22, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas	48 min
Jun 22, 2:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Dallas	23 min
Jun 22, 2:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Franklin, Wright	26 min
Jun 22, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Greene	50 min
Jun 22, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Dallas, Polk	31 min
Jun 22, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Story	25 min
Jun 22, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Polk	28 min
Jun 22, 3:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Dallas, Polk	6 hr
Jun 22, 3:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Dallas, Guthrie, Polk	6 hr
Jun 22, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Guthrie	47 min
Jun 22, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas	30 min
Jun 22, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Madison	49 min
Jun 22, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Polk, Warren	46 min
Jun 22, 4:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Wright	6 hr
Jun 22, 4:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Butler, Grundy	6 hr
Jun 22, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Warren	30 min
Jun 22, 4:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Polk	6 hr
Jun 22, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DMX	Warren	31 min
Jun 22, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Polk	44 min
Jun 22, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Lucas, Marion, Monroe	52 min
Jun 22, 5:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Marshall	6 hr
Jun 22, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Madison	30 min
Jun 22, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair	42 min
Jun 22, 5:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Tama	6 hr
Jun 22, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Warren	31 min
Jun 22, 5:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DMX	Adair, Madison	6 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.