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Flash Flood Watch 13, NWS Quad Cities, IA

June 26, 20107 counties in Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood watch at Jun 26, 2010, 9:20 PM CDT for 7 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Jun 26, 2010, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 2010, 9:20 PM CDT (02:20 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 26, 2010, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jun 27, 2010, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Flood severity
None

Counties Benton County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Linn County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 329 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2010-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2943 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2010-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2943 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1197 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Jun 26, 2:50 PM CDT, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:50 PM CDT, 6 hours 30 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 10:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNBenton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Iowa, Johnson and 2 more49 min
Jun 27, 12:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNBenton, Buchanan, Delaware, Linn118 min
Jun 27, 4:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNBenton, Buchanan88 min
Jun 27, 4:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNBuchanan56 min
Jun 27, 4:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNBenton, Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk, Linn64 min
Jun 27, 6:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNCedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Lee and 4 more67 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, 2010Every flash flood watch 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.