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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 2010, 5:41 PM CDT for Buchanan County, Delaware County, Iowa. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2010, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2010, 7:59 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Buchanan County, IA, Delaware County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -560 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 18, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 255 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 .DISCUSSION... WILL BE CONCISE DUE TO ONGOING SEVERE WEATHER WITH NEXT LINE DEVELOPING AND APPROACHING FROM CENTRAL IOWA. VERY MINOR CHANGES MADE TO CURRENT PACKAGE AS CONCERNS AND TRENDS FROM PAST FEW DAYS ON TRACK. EXITING BOWING CONVECTIVE LINE HAS PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF 60-70+ MPH WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN AND NUISANCE FLOODING. ISOLATED HAIL UP TO 1" ALSO WITH TREES DOWN ACROSS AREA. NOWCAST TOOLS SUGGEST NEXT LINE TO HAVE MORE DRY AIR ALOFT FOR POSSIBLY STRONGER EVENT INTO LATE EVENING HOURS. ISOLATED TORNADOES NOT OF THE QUESTION EARLY THIS EVENING WEST OF I-380 CORRIDOR ALONG WITH RISK OF EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE HAIL AND WINDS AOA 80 MPH UNTIL MID EVENING. SATURDAY...SLIGHTLY COOLER AND DRIER WITH WEAK HIGH OVERHEAD. KEPT LOW POPS FAR SOUTH MORE FOR CONTINUITY AS DIAGNOSIS SUGGEST MAY BE ABLE TO REMOVE. HIGHS LOWER 80S NORTH TO MID/UPPER 80S SOUTH. SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...ROUNDS OF CONVECTION WITH HEAVY RAIN RISKS. LOCAL TOOLS STILL SUGGEST LARGE SWATH OF 1 UP TO 5 PLUS INCH AMOUNTS OVER AREA WITH BEST AXIS OF 3 TO 5 PLUS INCH AMOUNTS STILL ROUGHLY 50 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A SIGOURNEY TO MONMOUTH LINE BY TUESDAY AM. THIS WOULD RESULT IN MODERATE TO HIGH END FLASH FLOODING AND RIVER FLOODING FROM ALREADY MOIST SOILS. SOUTH HALF MOST SUSCEPTIBLE FOR ALSO STRONG WINDS OF 60 TO 80 MPH THAT WITH WET GROUND WOULD PRODUCE LOTS OF TREES DOWN...AS HAS ALREADY OCCURRED TODAY. TEMPS A CHALLENGE WITH HIGHS STILL POSSIBLY UP TO 5 DEGREES TOO WARM IF LARGE PRECIPITATION AREAS LINGER...MAINLY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 34. TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...KEPT POPS MAINLY LOW ATTM BUT STILL SUPPORTS DERECHO POTENTIAL FOR LATER SHIFTS TO CONSIDER. SOME TOOLS CONTINUE TO INDICATE MODERATE-HIGH STRENGTH. MAGNITUDE OF FAST ZONAL JET ALONG BATTLE ZONE SUPPORTS CHANGES WITH LOCATION/TIMING OF STRONGEST CONVECTION THROUGH THIS PERIOD. PRIMARY DRIVERS WILL BE STRENGTH AND LOCATION OF COOL POOLS AND ASSOCIATED OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. CONVECTION THIS WEEKEND INTO MONDAY SHOULD BE THE KEY. ..NICHOLS.. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS EXCEPT BRIEF MVFR-IFR IN THUNDERSTORMS ALL TERMINALS UNTIL 06Z. ..NICHOLS.. && .DVN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IA...NONE. IL...NONE. MO...NONE. && NICHOLS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 9:14 AM CDT, 8 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 914 AM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007- 009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-191415- BUCHANAN-DELAWARE-DUBUQUE-BENTON-LINN-JONES-JACKSON-IOWA-JOHNSON- CEDAR-CLINTON-MUSCATINE-SCOTT-KEOKUK-WASHINGTON-LOUISA-JEFFERSON- HENRY IA-DES MOINES-VAN BUREN-LEE-JO DAVIESS-STEPHENSON-CARROLL- WHITESIDE-ROCK ISLAND-HENRY IL-BUREAU-PUTNAM-MERCER-HENDERSON- WARREN-HANCOCK-MCDONOUGH-SCOTLAND-CLARK- 914 AM CDT FRI JUN 18 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...NORTHWEST ILLINOIS...WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...EAST CENTRAL IOWA...NORTHEAST IOWA...SOUTHEAST IOWA AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IS FORECASTING A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION THROUGH TONIGHT...AND IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. AS TEMPERATURES RISE TO THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S...THE COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP INTO THE AREA. A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA LATE THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON. DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED. SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO FORM THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE THREAT OF ISOLATED TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS IS EXPECTED MAINLY OVER NORTHEAST IOWA. BY EARLY EVENING...THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MERGE INTO ANOTHER LINE...WITH A THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER ALL OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. AREA RIVERS ARE EXPERIENCING FLOODING. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS AND FLOOD WARNINGS FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MANY ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS WEEKEND AND UPCOMING WEEK. A NEAR DAILY THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING...AND INCREASING RIVER FLOODING IS EXPECTED. IN ADDITION...AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 MAY EXPERIENCE HEAT INDEX READINGS OVER 100 DEGREES MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... AN EMERGENCY MANAGERS CONFERENCE CALL WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 1030 AM THIS MORNING FOR ALL COUNTIES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAASE
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Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 9:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Iowa, Johnson, Linn | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 12:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Benton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jones, Linn | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 12:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Iowa, Jackson, Johnson, Muscatine and 2 more | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Iowa | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 11:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Jefferson, Keokuk, Washington | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Iowa, Johnson, Linn | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Muscatine | 55 min |
| Jun 18, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Louisa, Washington | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jackson, Muscatine, Scott | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jackson | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Lee | 53 min |
| Jun 18, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Linn | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 1 more | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 6:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Benton, Linn | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Benton, Iowa | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Jones, Scott | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Henry, Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Whiteside | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Bureau, Putnam | 54 min |
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Flash Flood Warnings in Iowa, 2010Every flash flood 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.