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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Quad Cities, IA

August 23, 2014Benton County, Iowa County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2014, 1:20 AM CDT for Benton County, Iowa County, Iowa. It was in force for 40 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
Aug 23, 2014, 1:20 AM CDT (06:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2014, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
65.0 mph

Counties Benton County, IA, Iowa County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2014-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1332 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2014-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1332 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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 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 Aug 22, 2:37 PM CDT, 10 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:37 PM CDT, 10 hours 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 2:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNIowa54 min
Aug 23, 7:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNDes Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee and 3 more66 min
Aug 23, 7:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNDes Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine and 2 more57 min
Aug 23, 9:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNCedar, Jones, Muscatine, Scott57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.