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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2010, 3:08 AM CDT for 4 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 6 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
- Aug 4, 2010, 3:08 AM CDT (08:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2010, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Iowa County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Washington County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 315 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
- 4758 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.0
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 Aug 3, 9:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 9:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
912 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 2010
.UPDATE...
THE RISK FOR A HEAVY RAIN EVENT NEARLY ON TOP OF THE EVENT FROM
LAST NIGHT HAS INCREASED AS DISCUSSED IN THE PREVIOUS AFD. THE SFC
HAS REMAINED CAPPED OVER SOUTHERN IOWA AND NORTHERN MO...AND MCS
PARAMETERS...AND AGGRESSIVE STORM DEVELOPMENT ON RADAR ARE BULLSEYED
ON WESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NE. THIS AREA SHOULD GROW UPSCALE INTO
AN MCS...MOVING GENERALLY EAST...OR SLIGHTLY NORTH OF DUE EAST AS
SHOWN ON BOTH FORWARD AND BACKWARD PROPAGATING CORFIDI VECTORS.
CAPE SHOULD REMAIN IN EXCESS OF 2000 ALL NIGHT...WITH PWAT VALUES
AROUND 2 INCHES OR SLIGHTLY HIGHER. THE HRRR MODEL HAS BEEN
NAILING THE DEVELOPMENT THUS FAR...AND THIS BRINGS THE HEART OF
THE MCS ALONG I-80 LATER TONIGHT. SINCE THIS IS OVER SATURATED AND
URBAN AREAS...A NEW FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED MIDNIGHT THROUGH
1 PM CDT WEDNESDAY.
..ERVIN..
&&
.DVN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR CEDAR-CLINTON-
HENRY IA-IOWA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-KEOKUK-LOUISA-MUSCATINE-
SCOTT-WASHINGTON.
IL...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR BUREAU-CARROLL-
HENRY IL-MERCER-PUTNAM-ROCK ISLAND-WHITESIDE.
MO...NONE.
&&
...ERVIN...Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 9:19 PM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 919 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 2010 IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007- 009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-050230- 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- 919 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 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...TONIGHT ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. THESE STORM WILL BRING THE THREAT OF 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR. WHERE THIS RAIN FALLS IN SATURATED AND URBAN AREAS...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LOCATIONS ROUGHLY WITHIN 50 MILES OF INTERSTATE 80 IN IOWA AND ILLINOIS THROUGH 1 PM WEDNESDAY. AREA RIVERS ARE EXPERIENCING FLOODING. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS AND FLOOD WARNINGS FOR DETAILS. SOME OF THESE RIVERS MAY SEE ADDITIONAL RISES DUE TO TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAYS RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...ENDING THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT AS THE FRONT PASSES. UNTIL THE FRONT PASSES THROUGH...HEAVY RAIN REMAINS A THREAT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE OUTLOOK AREA SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE BUT IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE SPECIFICS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS UNLIKELY TONIGHT. RAINFALL REPORTS OF MORE THAN AN INCH IN A SHORT PERIOD OR FLASH FLOODING WOULD BE APPRECIATED. ERVIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 1:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
115 AM CDT WED AUG 4 2010
IAZ063-076-040715-
IOWA-KEOKUK-
115 AM CDT WED AUG 4 2010
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING EASTERN IOWA...
AT 110 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 42 MILES WEST OF
WHAT CHEER TO 56 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HEDRICK...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
WHAT CHEER AROUND 210 AM CDT...
DELTA...HEDRICK...KESWICK AND HAYESVILLE AROUND 215 AM CDT...
THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. TORRENTIAL RAINS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER
HOUR AND DANGEROUS FREQUENT TO CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING WILL ALSO
ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS.
LAT...LON 4151 9242 4151 9231 4169 9231 4169 9230
4169 9220 4116 9219 4116 9241 4123 9242
TIME...MOT...LOC 0609Z 268DEG 32KT 4159 9308 4073 9316
HAASESpecial weather statement, Aug 4, 2:11 AM CDT, 57 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:57 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
257 AM CDT WED AUG 4 2010
IAZ063>065-067-068-077-078-087>089-098-099-ILZ015-024-025-040900-
CEDAR-DES
MOINES-HENDERSON-HENRY-IOWA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LEE-LOUISA-MERCER-
MUSCATINE-ROCK ISLAND-SCOTT-VAN BUREN-WASHINGTON-
257 AM CDT WED AUG 4 2010
...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS EASTERN IOWA...
AT 254 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM OXFORD TO
CRAWFORDSVILLE TO KEOSAUQUA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
WYMAN...RIVERSIDE...ROME AND OLDS AROUND 300 AM CDT...
COTTER AND TIFFIN AROUND 305 AM CDT...
NORTH LIBERTY...WESTWOOD...COLUMBUS JUNCTION AND COLUMBUS CITY
AROUND 310 AM CDT...
WINDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH...BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAIN AND DANGEROUS
FREQUENT TO CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED.
IF YOU HEAR THUNDER...MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO A STURDY BUILDING OR CAR
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN IOWA AND NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS AND
NORTHEAST MISSOURI.
LAT...LON 4120 9163 4181 9195 4181 9100 4120 9069
4069 9128 4068 9219 4071 9219
TIME...MOT...LOC 0755Z 270DEG 29KT 4173 9178 4120 9151
4075 9201
HAASEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:08 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Johnson, Louisa, Washington | 4 days |
| Aug 3, 8:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson and 5 more | 14 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:52 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Louisa | 56 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:52 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Louisa | 5 days |
| Aug 3, 8:52 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Lee, Van Buren | 61 hr |
| Aug 4, 1:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Keokuk | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 2:11 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Van Buren and 1 more | 64 min |
| Aug 4, 2:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Cedar, Des Moines, Henry, Johnson, Louisa, Muscatine and 1 more | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 3:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Muscatine, Scott | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 45 min |
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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.