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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT for Wayne County, Iowa. It was in force for 45 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 14, 2013, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2013, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Wayne County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1360 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 3:52 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:52 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 5:33 AM CDT, 10 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 533 AM CDT FRI JUN 14 2013 IAZ004>007-015>017-023>028-033>039-151100- EMMET-KOSSUTH-WINNEBAGO-WORTH-PALO ALTO-HANCOCK-CERRO GORDO- POCAHONTAS-HUMBOLDT-WRIGHT-FRANKLIN-BUTLER-BREMER-SAC-CALHOUN- WEBSTER-HAMILTON-HARDIN-GRUNDY-BLACK HAWK- 533 AM CDT FRI JUN 14 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY INTO TONIGHT. SOME SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE WITH MAIN THREAT FROM HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO EXPECTED WITH MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. PLEASE REFER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/DESMOINES FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON SATURDAY WITH HEAVY RAIN REMAINING POSSIBLE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. PLEASE REFER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/DESMOINES FOR FURTHER DETAILS. THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL THREAT OF ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY EVENING AND THEN AGAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY MONDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THOSE TIMES. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES EMERGE ONCE AGAIN BY NEXT THURSDAY BUT THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CANNOT BE DETERMINED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. IAZ044>050-057>062-070>075-081>086-092>097-151100- CRAWFORD-CARROLL-GREENE-BOONE-STORY-MARSHALL-TAMA-AUDUBON-GUTHRIE- DALLAS-POLK-JASPER-POWESHIEK-CASS-ADAIR-MADISON-WARREN-MARION- MAHASKA-ADAMS-UNION-CLARKE-LUCAS-MONROE-WAPELLO-TAYLOR-RINGGOLD- DECATUR-WAYNE-APPANOOSE-DAVIS- 533 AM CDT FRI JUN 14 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY INTO TONIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS CHANCES WILL REMAIN INTO SATURDAY WITH SEVERE WEATHER ONCE AGAIN POSSIBLE BY AFTERNOON WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN THREAT ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORMS CHANCES REMAIN FROM SATURDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING ALTHOUGH THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT APPEARS MINIMAL. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES EMERGE ONCE AGAIN BY NEXT THURSDAY BUT THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CANNOT BE DETERMINED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT AS WELL AS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. CC
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 242 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 2013 IAZ033-044-142045- CRAWFORD-SAC- 242 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 2013 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL IOWA... AT 238 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF DENISON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...WINDS GREATER THAN 40 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SCHLESWIG... ARION... DENISON AIRPORT... KIRON... DENISON... BUCK GROVE... ODEBOLT... DELOIT... EARLY... WALL LAKE... WESTSIDE... SAC CITY... LAKE VIEW... ASPINWALL... GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW AROUND. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. SMALL
Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:40 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
340 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0335 PM HAIL 1 SW GARDEN GROVE 40.81N 93.62W
06/14/2013 E1.50 INCH DECATUR IA TRAINED SPOTTER
ONE TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES OF DIME SIZE HAIL COVERING
THE GROUND ALONG WITH PING PONG HAIL.
&&
RVACHALEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 39 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Clarke, Decatur, Wayne | 48 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.