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Flood Watch 1, NWS Des Moines, IA

April 13, 201415 counties in Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this flood watch at Apr 13, 2014, 3:37 PM CDT for 15 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 2014, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2014, 9:49 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA
Flood severity: None

Counties Appanoose County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Tama County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Wayne County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 293 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: 872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 357 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Apr 13, 1:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 1:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 4:08 AM CDT, 11 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 13, 11:02 AM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Bremer	42 min
Apr 12, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Hamilton, Hardin, Story	26 min
Apr 12, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Hamilton, Webster	46 min
Apr 12, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Cass	41 min
Apr 12, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Guthrie	51 min
Apr 12, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Pocahontas, Sac	36 min
Apr 12, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Hamilton, Hardin, Story	45 min
Apr 12, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Adams, Cass	51 min
Apr 12, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Wright	33 min
Apr 12, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone	27 min
Apr 12, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Sac	30 min
Apr 12, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford, Sac	28 min
Apr 12, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Crawford	40 min
Apr 12, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Hamilton, Hardin, Marshall, Story	36 min
Apr 12, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Cerro Gordo, Franklin	30 min
Apr 12, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Boone, Hamilton, Story	44 min
Apr 12, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Adams, Cass	41 min
Apr 12, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Dallas, Guthrie, Madison	39 min
Apr 12, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Webster	49 min
Apr 12, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Calhoun, Sac	32 min
Apr 12, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer	41 min
Apr 12, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Grundy, Hardin, Marshall, Tama	32 min
Apr 12, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Dallas, Polk	38 min
Apr 12, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Grundy, Hardin	34 min
Apr 12, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Adams	33 min
Apr 12, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk, Grundy, Marshall, Tama	41 min
Apr 12, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DMX	Hamilton	32 min
Apr 12, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Adams, Madison, Union	46 min
Apr 12, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DMX	Polk	29 min
Apr 12, 9:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DMX	Madison	26 min
Apr 12, 9:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DMX	Carroll	36 min
Apr 12, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Hamilton, Hardin	24 min
Apr 12, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Clarke, Madison, Union, Warren	38 min
Apr 12, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Black Hawk, Bremer, Tama	36 min
Apr 12, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Decatur, Ringgold	45 min
Apr 12, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Jasper, Marshall, Poweshiek, Tama	25 min
Apr 12, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Clarke, Madison, Union, Warren	34 min
Apr 12, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DMX	Polk	29 min
Apr 12, 10:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DMX	Humboldt	27 min
Apr 12, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Clarke, Lucas, Marion, Monroe, Warren	46 min
Apr 12, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Jasper, Marshall, Poweshiek, Tama	31 min
Apr 12, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Wayne	36 min
Apr 12, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Poweshiek, Tama	34 min
Apr 12, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Appanoose, Davis, Jasper, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe and 2 more	55 min
Apr 13, 12:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DMX	Carroll	28 min
Apr 13, 1:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	DMX	Webster	30 min
Apr 13, 2:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DMX	Adair, Cass, Guthrie	38 min
Apr 13, 3:44 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll and 28 more	8 hr

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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.