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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Des Moines, IA

April 22, 2008Clarke County, Lucas County, Warren County, Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2008, 5:04 AM CDT for Clarke County, Lucas County, Warren County, Iowa. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 2008, 5:04 AM CDT (10:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2008, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Clarke County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Warren County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:08 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

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 nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KDMX 221003
SVRDMX
IAC039-117-181-221045-
/O.NEW.KDMX.SV.W.0015.080422T1004Z-080422T1045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
504 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA...
  NORTHWESTERN LUCAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA...
  WARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA...

* UNTIL 545 AM CDT.

* AT 458 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF INDIANOLA...OR 21 MILES SOUTH OF
  DES MOINES...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 23 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  INDIANOLA BY 505 AM CDT...
  MILO BY 515 AM CDT...
  ACKWORTH BY 520 AM CDT...
  SANDYVILLE BY 530 AM CDT...
  HARTFORD BY 535 AM CDT...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 35 AND 40.

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

LAT...LON 4151 9365 4149 9335 4117 9334 4103 9382
      4132 9367
TIME...MOT...LOC 1004Z 237DEG 20KT 4130 9354

$$

RUSSELL

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KDMX 221028
SVSDMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
528 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

IAC039-117-181-221045-
/O.CON.KDMX.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-080422T1045Z/
LUCAS IA-CLARKE IA-WARREN IA-
528 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 AM CDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN WARREN...NORTHEASTERN CLARKE AND NORTHWESTERN LUCAS
COUNTIES...

AT 527 AM 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 LACONA...OR 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DES MOINES...MOVING
EAST AT 57 MPH.

LAT...LON 4108 9366 4149 9335 4117 9334
TIME...MOT...LOC 1028Z 258DEG 49KT 4122 9327

$$

RUSSELL

000 
WWUS53 KDMX 221042
SVSDMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
541 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

IAC039-117-181-221051-
/O.EXP.KDMX.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-080422T1045Z/
LUCAS IA-CLARKE IA-WARREN IA-
541 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WARREN...
NORTHEASTERN CLARKE AND NORTHWESTERN LUCAS COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT
545 AM CDT...

AT 537 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4108 9366 4149 9335 4117 9334
TIME...MOT...LOC 1041Z 258DEG 49KT 4126 9304

$$

RUSSELL

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 Apr 22, 4:06 AM CDT, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 4:06 AM CDT, 58 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
406 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

.DISCUSSION...
500 MB SHORTWAVE MOVING OVERHEAD WILL PUSH SURFACE TROUGH/FRONT EAST
OF OUR AREA THIS MORNING ALONG WITH RAIN CHANCES AND CLOUDS. NAM
TRIES TO REDEVELOP SOME CLOUDS AND LIGHT RAIN IN WAKE OF THE SURFACE
BOUNDARY THIS MORNING...BUT THIS SEEMS DUE TO FLUCTUATION IN
SHORTWAVE TIMING NOT INDICATED BY OTHER MODELS. SURFACE HIGH
PRESSURE WILL MOVE QUICKLY INTO NORTHWESTERN IOWA THIS
AFTERNOON...RESULTING IN DECREASING WINDS LATE IN THE DAY. WITH
RESULTING SHORT DURATION MARGINAL CAA BEHIND SURFACE BOUNDARY
TEMPERATURES SHOULD REBOUND FAIRLY WELL WITH LT WNDS AND FEW CLDS
THIS AFTERNOON. HAVE BUMPED UP DAYTIME HIGHS A DEGREE OR TWO TO
REFLECT THIS.

FAIR WX THEN EXPECTED FOR TONIGHT AND WED AS HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES
INTO IA.  QUESTION THEN TURNS TO CONVECTIVE INITIATION WED NIGHT.
GFS STRONG CONVECTIVE VORT MAX ALONG TX/OK BORDER MAY BE ANCHORING
PCPN TOO FAR SOUTH WITH ECMWF/NAM/GEM/SREF ALL SUGGESTING FARTHER
NWD TRACK WITH FORCING AND MCS.  SEE NO REASON TO BUCK CONSENSUS AT
THIS POINT SO WILL BOOST OVERNIGHT POPS INTO LIKELIES AS LARGE SCALE
FORCING INCREASES...BUT NOT QUITE AS AGGRESSIVE AS ETA/NAM MOS.  MAY
BE SOMEWHAT OF A LULL THU AS OVERNIGHT MCS EXITS READY TO RELOAD
WITH FROPA.  COUPLING OF LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND SYNOPTIC UVM
AHEAD OF POTENT TROUGH SHOULD BE PLENTY TO INITIATE MORE CONVECTION
THU NIGHT SO HAVE LIKELIES AGAIN OVER ENTIRE FORECAST AREA.  DID NOT
CHANGE FORECAST MUCH IN LATER PERIODS...BUT COULD SEE LINGERING
PRECIP FRI MORNING...ENDING BY LATE IN THE DAY.

SOUNDINGS SUGGEST RAISING TEMPS WED BUT NOT QUITE AS HIGH AS
GUIDANCE SUGGESTED WITH THE SAME HOLDING TRUE INTO THU.

&&

.HYDROLOGY...
WITH CONVECTION THIS MORNING AND POSSIBLY SEVERAL MORE ROUNDS WED
NIGHT THROUGH THU NIGHT...FLOODING MAY AGAIN BECOME A CONCERN.
BASED ON IEM/DAILY SOIL EROSION PROJECT SOIL MOISTURE
DATA...SOUTHERN AND EAST CENTRAL SECTIONS ARE PARTICULARLY
SUSCEPTABLE.  WILL ISSUE HYDROLOGIC OUTLOOK /ESF/ AND HIGHLIGHT
THESE AREAS OF CONCERN.  QPF WED NIGHT AND THU IS APPROACHING AN
INCH WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE THU NIGHT OR LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS.

&&

.AVIATION...22/06Z
CDFNT MAKING LTL PROGRESS AS UPR LVL TROF AND UPPER LEVEL SPEED MAX
LIFTS OUT OF CO.  WILL SEE AN INC IN SHRA/TSRA ACTIVITY DURG THE
FIRST 6 HRS OF THE TAF PD WITH IMPVG CONDS AFT THAT.  HI PRES BLDG
INTO THE AREA ON TUE INTO TUE NGT WL BRING GUD VFR CONDS ACRS THE
STATE.

&&

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

&&

BSS/JL/MS

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 21, 9:53 PM CDT, 7 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
953 PM CDT MON APR 21 2008

IAZ004>007-015>017-023>028-033>039-044>050-057>062-070>075-
081>086-092>097-222100-
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-
953 PM CDT MON APR 21 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT...THOUGH SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.  SOME OF THE STORMS MAY
PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL ARRIVE WEDNESDAY
NIGHT...AND CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE
WEATHER CANNOT BE RULED OUT AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

MS APR 08

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 22, 1:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
127 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

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

0126 AM     HAIL             3 E ATLANTIC AIRPORT    41.41N 95.00W
04/22/2008  E1.00 INCH       CASS               IA   BROADCAST MEDIA

            PENNY TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL COMING DOWN IN BUCKETS AND
            ACCUMULATING. FROM KJAN RADIO IN ATLANTIC.

&&

SMALL

Local storm report, Apr 22, 1:33 AM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
133 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

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

0125 AM     HAIL             5 NNE ATLANTIC          41.46N 94.97W
04/22/2008  E1.00 INCH       CASS               IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            HAIL NEARLY COVERING THE GROUND. LASTED FOR SEVERAL
            MINUTES.

&&

SMALL

Local storm report, Apr 22, 1:39 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
139 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

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

0135 AM     HAIL             1 S BRAYTON             41.52N 94.93W
04/22/2008  E0.75 INCH       AUDUBON            IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            DIME TO PENNY HAIL COVERING THE GROUND.

&&

MRUSSELL

Local storm report, Apr 22, 3:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
324 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

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

0229 AM     HAIL             1 W ANITA               41.44N 94.78W
04/22/2008  E0.25 INCH       CASS               IA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0307 AM     HAIL             7 N BOONE AIRPORT       42.15N 93.82W
04/22/2008  E0.75 INCH       BOONE              IA   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

MRUSSELL

Local storm report, Apr 22, 3:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
326 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

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

0326 AM     HAIL             BEDFORD                 40.67N 94.72W
04/22/2008  E0.88 INCH       TAYLOR             IA   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

MRUSSELL

Local storm report, Apr 22, 3:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
340 AM CDT TUE APR 22 2008

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

0325 AM     HAIL             1 SE CLIVE              41.59N 93.75W
04/22/2008  E0.88 INCH       POLK               IA   BROADCAST MEDIA

            NICKEL SIZED HAIL AT I235 AND VALLEY WEST DRIVE. PEOPLE
            PULLING OVER. FROM KCCI TV.

&&

SMALL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Cass	33 min
Apr 22, 1:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon, Cass	29 min
Apr 22, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Audubon, Guthrie	28 min
Apr 22, 3:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hardin, Marshall, Story	39 min
Apr 22, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Polk	36 min
Apr 22, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas, Madison, Polk, Warren	45 min
Apr 22, 4:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Jasper, Polk	28 min
Apr 22, 5:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Clarke, Lucas, Marion	35 min
Apr 22, 5:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Mahaska, Marion, Monroe	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.