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Special Weather Statement, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this special weather statement at Sep 3, 2011, 2:20 PM CDT for Scott County, Iowa. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 2011, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2011, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
County Scott County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 10 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
- 1431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Sep 3, 10:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 10:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 1027 AM CDT SAT SEP 3 2011 .UPDATE... MAIN COLD FRONT JUST ENTERING NW IA ATTIM WITH SCT-WDSPD SHRA/TSRA IN ADVANCE MOVING E/NE. SENT ZFP/GRID UPDATE TO ADJUST POPS BASED ON LATEST RADAR TRENDS. VIS SATL IMAGERY SHOWS OUTFLOW BOUNDARY NEAR TO JUST NORTH OF KAWG-KDVN-KFEP AXIS. CONSIDERABLE CLOUDS... PCPN AND RAIN COOLED AIR IN WAKE WILL HOLD TEMPS DOWN AND HAVE LOWERED MAXES BY SEVERAL DEGS ALL AREAS NORTH OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. CLOUDS/PCPN TO LIMIT SFC HEATING/INSTBY THUS ANTICIPATE MAIN SEVERE RISK THIS AFTN/EVE TO BE CONFINED ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE AFOREMENTIONED OUTFLOW BOUNDARY... OR ROUGHLY SOUTHERN HALF OF CWA. && .DVN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IA...NONE. IL...NONE. MO...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 3, 4:07 AM CDT, 10 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 407 AM CDT SAT SEP 3 2011 IAZ040>042-051>054-063>068-076>078-087>089-098-099-ILZ001-002-007- 009-015>018-024>026-034-035-MOZ009-010-040915- 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- 407 AM CDT SAT SEP 3 2011 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 A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 THIS MORNING WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS OVER ALL THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND ISOLATED LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN AND POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS A SLIGHT RISK FOR THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HAASE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 3, 1:57 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Sep 3, 2:14 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
214 PM CDT SAT SEP 03 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0155 PM HAIL SSW FAIRFIELD 41.00N 91.97W
09/03/2011 E1.00 INCH JEFFERSON IA TRAINED SPOTTER
NICKEL AND DIME SIZED HAIL WITH A FEW QUARTER SIZE
&&
SCHULTZLocal storm report, Sep 3, 2:19 PM CDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
219 PM CDT SAT SEP 03 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0203 PM HAIL 5 NE FAIRFIELD 41.06N 91.91W
09/03/2011 E0.75 INCH JEFFERSON IA TRAINED SPOTTER
MOSTLY DIME SIZED HAIL ALONG WITH PEA SIZED HAIL
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SCHULTZSpecial weather statement, Sep 3, 2:20 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL 220 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2011 IAZ066>068-ILZ009-015-016-032015- CLINTON-HENRY-MUSCATINE-ROCK ISLAND-SCOTT-WHITESIDE- 220 PM CDT SAT SEP 3 2011 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN... AT 217 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM DONAHUE TO WALCOTT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... DONAHUE AROUND 225 PM CDT... DAVENPORT AROUND 230 PM CDT... LONG GROVE AND ELDRIDGE AROUND 235 PM CDT... RIVERDALE AND BETTENDORF AROUND 245 PM CDT... HAMPTON AND MCCAUSLAND AROUND 250 PM CDT... LE CLAIRE AROUND 255 PM CDT... STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL GREATLY RESTRICT VISIBILITY AND PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. LAT...LON 4181 9016 4153 9014 4153 9082 4177 9082 TIME...MOT...LOC 1919Z 267DEG 25KT 4174 9072 4154 9072
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Buchanan, Delaware | 55 min |
| Sep 3, 1:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Delaware, Dubuque | 55 min |
| Sep 3, 1:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Buchanan, Delaware | 63 min |
| Sep 3, 2:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Linn | 61 min |
| Sep 3, 9:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Cedar, Clinton | 64 min |
| Sep 3, 1:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Muscatine, Scott | 45 min |
| Sep 3, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Henry, Jefferson | 66 min |
| Sep 3, 2:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Des Moines | 48 min |
| Sep 3, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Des Moines, Louisa | 53 min |
| Sep 3, 11:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Whiteside | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Warren | 14 min |
| Sep 3, 5:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Putnam | 57 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Iowa, 2011Every special weather statement in 2011
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.