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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Quad Cities, IA

May 26, 201321 counties in Iowa; 10 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flash flood watch at May 26, 2013, 3:06 AM CDT for 21 counties in Iowa; 10 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2013, 3:06 AM CDT (08:06 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2013, 10:53 AM CDT
In force: 56 hr
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA
Flood severity: None

All 33 counties

Benton County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Washington County, IA, Bureau County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:06 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 58 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 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 May 25, 11:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 11:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 8:34 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Lee	4 days
May 25, 9:14 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Clinton, Scott	18 days
May 25, 9:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Johnson, Washington	5 days
May 25, 9:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Keokuk	10 days
May 25, 9:50 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Louisa	25 days
May 26, 4:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Iowa, Keokuk, Washington	6 hr
May 26, 8:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Louisa, Washington	6 hr
May 26, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DVN	Henry	55 min
May 26, 4:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Cedar, Muscatine, Scott	9 hr
May 26, 4:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Jones	6 hr
May 26, 4:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DVN	Benton, Cedar, Iowa, Johnson, Linn, Muscatine	9 hr
May 25, 9:50 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	DVN	Hancock	25 days

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Iowa, 2013 Flash Flood Watches in Illinois, 2013 Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2013 Every flash flood watch in 2013

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.