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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2010, 6:21 AM CDT for 5 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 54 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
- Jun 22, 2010, 6:21 AM CDT (11:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2010, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Iowa County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Washington County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 2621 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 22, 5:57 AM CDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 5:57 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
557 AM CDT TUE JUN 22 2010
.UPDATE...
JUST DID AN UPDATE TO THE FCST TO REFLECT CURRENT TRENDS WITH THE
MCS MOVING ACROSS IOWA. UNFORTUNATELY...THE 06Z WRF AND GFS ARE
NOT HANDLING THE IOWA MCS AT ALL. CORFIDI VECTORS FROM THE 09Z RUC
HAS THE MCS CONTINUING EAST WITH THE STRONGER CONVECTION SLOWLY
DEVELOPING SOUTHEAST. THE COLD POOL FROM THE MCS WILL AID IN HOLDING
THE BOUNDARY ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI IN PLACE THROUGH THE
AFTERNOON. ...08...
&&
.DVN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR CEDAR-CLINTON-
DES MOINES-HENRY IA-IOWA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-KEOKUK-LEE-
LOUISA-MUSCATINE-SCOTT-VAN BUREN-WASHINGTON.
IL...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR BUREAU-
HANCOCK-HENDERSON-HENRY IL-MCDONOUGH-MERCER-PUTNAM-ROCK
ISLAND-WARREN-WHITESIDE.
MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR CLARK-
SCOTLAND.
&&Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 5:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 500 AM CDT TUE JUN 22 2010 IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007- 009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-231000- BENTON IA-BUCHANAN IA-BUREAU IL-CARROLL IL-CEDAR IA-CLARK MO- CLINTON IA-DELAWARE IA-DES MOINES IA-DUBUQUE IA-HANCOCK IL- HENDERSON IL-HENRY IA-HENRY IL-IOWA IA-JACKSON IA-JEFFERSON IA- JO DAVIESS IL-JOHNSON IA-JONES IA-KEOKUK IA-LEE IA-LINN IA-LOUISA IA- MCDONOUGH IL-MERCER IL-MUSCATINE IA-PUTNAM IL-ROCK ISLAND IL- SCOTLAND MO-SCOTT IA-STEPHENSON IL-VAN BUREN IA-WARREN IL- WASHINGTON IA-WHITESIDE IL- 500 AM CDT TUE JUN 22 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 TWO ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES WILL BE SEEN ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY FROM EACH THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX. SINCE THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED...THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A HIGH IMPACT FLASH FLOOD EVENT. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING HIGH WINDS AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS A SLIGHT RISK ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. CURRENTLY A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS EXISTS ACROSS BUCHANAN... BENTON...AND IOWA COUNTIES. AREA RIVERS ARE EXPERIENCING FLOODING. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS AND FLOOD WARNINGS FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY TWO ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEEN WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. BOTH ROUNDS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. DUE TO SATURATED GROUND FROM REPEATED HEAVY RAINFALL...THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A HIGH IMPACT FLASH FLOOD EVENT. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE SECOND ROUND OF STORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. A NEAR DAILY CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE STARTING FRIDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUING THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Van Buren | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 7:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines and 15 more | 49 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Clinton, Jackson | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Scott | 58 min |
| Jun 21, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 31 min |
| Jun 21, 8:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Van Buren | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Van Buren | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Lee | 44 min |
| Jun 21, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Van Buren | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Lee, Van Buren | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Lee, Van Buren | 8 hr |
| Jun 22, 5:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk and 4 more | 90 min |
| Jun 22, 8:47 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Lee, Van Buren | 59 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:04 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Van Buren | 21 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:10 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DVN | Johnson, Washington | 5 days |
| Jun 21, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | McDonough | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Stephenson | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 7:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Warren | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 33 min |
| Jun 21, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Warren | 56 min |
| Jun 22, 9:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Scotland | 58 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.