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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 358, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2010, 1:46 PM CDT for Clarke County, Decatur County, Union County, Iowa. It was in force for 59 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
- Sep 21, 2010, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2010, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clarke County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Union County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 993 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1031 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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 Sep 21, 12:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 12:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 21, 5:07 AM CDT, 8 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 507 AM CDT TUE SEP 21 2010 IAZ004>007-015>017-023>028-033>035-044-045-221015- EMMET-KOSSUTH-WINNEBAGO-WORTH-PALO ALTO-HANCOCK-CERRO GORDO- POCAHONTAS-HUMBOLDT-WRIGHT-FRANKLIN-BUTLER-BREMER-SAC-CALHOUN- WEBSTER-CRAWFORD-CARROLL- 507 AM CDT TUE SEP 21 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA THROUGHOUT THE MORNING AND AFTERNOON HOURS. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY INTERMITTENT THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL PERSIST THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. IAZ036>039-046>050-057>062-070>075-081>086-092>097-221015- HAMILTON-HARDIN-GRUNDY-BLACK HAWK-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- 507 AM CDT TUE SEP 21 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD IN FROM THE NORTHWEST LATE THIS MORNING...PERSISTING INTO TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS IN THE AFTERNOON COULD BE SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREATS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY INTERMITTENT THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL PERSIST THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. AW
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 1:02 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 10:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Audubon, Boone, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie, Polk and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 11:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Marshall, Tama | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Poweshiek | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Lucas | 45 min |
| Sep 21, 2:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas, Monroe and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 21, 3:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DMX | Decatur, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Decatur, Wayne | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.