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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 1, 2008, 3:38 PM CST for 7 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Jan 1, 2008, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 1, 2008, 3:38 PM CST (21:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 1, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2008, 3:45 AM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
Counties Cerro Gordo County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Worth County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Dec 31, 5:36 PM CST, 22 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 31, 5:36 PM CST, 22 hours 2 minutes before
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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.