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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this wind advisory at Apr 10, 2008, 12:07 PM CDT for 9 counties in Illinois; 16 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2008, 12:07 PM CDT (17:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2008, 3:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
All 25 counties
Benton County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Washington County, IA, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Whiteside County, IL
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:08 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 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 KDVN 101707 NPWDVN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 1207 PM CDT THU APR 10 2008 ...VERY STRONG WINDS THROUGH MID AFTERNOON... .A STRENGTHENING SPRING STORM SYSTEM COMBINED WITH A DEPARTING HIGH HAS CREATED VERY STRONG WINDS ACROSS THE MIDWEST. IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-ILZ001-002-007-009-015>018-024- 102100- /O.NEW.KDVN.WI.Y.0002.080410T1707Z-080410T2100Z/ BUCHANAN-DELAWARE-DUBUQUE-BENTON-LINN-JONES-JACKSON-IOWA-JOHNSON- CEDAR-CLINTON-MUSCATINE-SCOTT-KEOKUK-WASHINGTON-LOUISA-JO DAVIESS- STEPHENSON-CARROLL-WHITESIDE-ROCK ISLAND-HENRY IL-BUREAU-PUTNAM- MERCER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...INDEPENDENCE...MANCHESTER...DUBUQUE... VINTON...CEDAR RAPIDS...ANAMOSA...MAQUOKETA...MARENGO... IOWA CITY...TIPTON...CLINTON...MUSCATINE...BETTENDORF... DAVENPORT...SIGOURNEY...WASHINGTON...WAPELLO...GALENA... FREEPORT...MOUNT CARROLL...STERLING...ROCK FALLS...MOLINE... ROCK ISLAND...KEWANEE...PRINCETON...HENNEPIN...ALEDO 1207 PM CDT THU APR 10 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THE WIND ADVISORY MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED UNTIL EARLY EVENING. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED...WHICH CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION IF YOU ARE TRAVELING. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KDVN 102025 NPWDVN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 325 PM CDT THU APR 10 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY CANCELED... .STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON BUT WIND GUSTS SHOULD BE UNDER 40 MPH. IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-ILZ001-002-007-009-015>018-024- 102130- /O.CAN.KDVN.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-080410T2100Z/ BUCHANAN-DELAWARE-DUBUQUE-BENTON-LINN-JONES-JACKSON-IOWA-JOHNSON- CEDAR-CLINTON-MUSCATINE-SCOTT-KEOKUK-WASHINGTON-LOUISA-JO DAVIESS- STEPHENSON-CARROLL-WHITESIDE-ROCK ISLAND-HENRY IL-BUREAU-PUTNAM- MERCER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...INDEPENDENCE...MANCHESTER...DUBUQUE... VINTON...CEDAR RAPIDS...ANAMOSA...MAQUOKETA...MARENGO... IOWA CITY...TIPTON...CLINTON...MUSCATINE...BETTENDORF... DAVENPORT...SIGOURNEY...WASHINGTON...WAPELLO...GALENA... FREEPORT...MOUNT CARROLL...STERLING...ROCK FALLS...MOLINE... ROCK ISLAND...KEWANEE...PRINCETON...HENNEPIN...ALEDO 325 PM CDT THU APR 10 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN QUAD CITIES HAS CANCELED THE WIND ADVISORY. STRONG WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON WITH POSSIBLY SOME GUSTS TO 40 MPH. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 9:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Whiteside | 7 days |
| Apr 10, 9:55 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Henry, Rock Island | 23 hr |
| Apr 10, 10:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Hancock, McDonough | 60 hr |
| Apr 10, 11:33 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Henderson | 43 days |
| Apr 10, 11:33 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson | 43 days |
| Apr 10, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Warren | 43 min |
| Apr 10, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Warren | 30 min |
| Apr 10, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren and 1 more | 40 min |
| Apr 10, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Washington | 37 min |
Nearby
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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.