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Special Weather Statement, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this special weather statement at Jun 14, 2016, 1:01 PM CDT for Worth County, Iowa. It was in force for 59 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
- Jun 14, 2016, 1:01 PM CDT (18:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2016, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
County Worth County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 14, 10:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 10:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 11:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 1102 AM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016 IAZ004>007-015>017-025>028-151615- EMMET-KOSSUTH-WINNEBAGO-WORTH-PALO ALTO-HANCOCK-CERRO GORDO- WRIGHT-FRANKLIN-BUTLER-BREMER- 1102 AM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR THE POTENTIAL OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. PLEASE REFER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/DESMOINES FOR FURTHER DETAILS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY LIKELY THROUGH THE DAY AND THEN INTO THE EVENING HOURS WITH CHANCES DIMINISHING OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND A FEW TORNADOES ALL POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES RETURN TO THE FORECAST NORTH LATE IN THE WEEKEND...AND AREA WIDE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL WILL BE BETTER DETERMINED IN THE COMING DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. IAZ023-024-033>039-044>050-057>062-070>075-081>086-092>097-151615- POCAHONTAS-HUMBOLDT-SAC-CALHOUN-WEBSTER-HAMILTON-HARDIN-GRUNDY- BLACK HAWK-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- 1102 AM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL IOWA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY LIKELY THROUGH THE DAY AND THEN INTO THE EVENING HOURS WITH CHANCES DIMINISHING OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND A FEW TORNADOES ALL POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES RETURN TO THE FORECAST NORTH LATE IN THE WEEKEND...AND AREA WIDE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL WILL BE BETTER DETERMINED IN THE COMING DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. REV
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 12:42 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
1242 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
IAZ033-044-045-057-141845-
AUDUBON IA-CARROLL IA-CRAWFORD IA-SAC IA-
1242 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST-CENTRAL IOWA...
AT 1239 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A CLUSTER OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF CARROLL...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SAC CITY...MANNING...LAKE VIEW...BLACK HAWK LAKE...WALL LAKE...
MANILLA...EARLY...ARCADIA...BREDA...VAIL...WESTSIDE...HALBUR...
ASPINWALL...MANNING MUNICIPAL AIRPORT...
WALL LAKE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT...
BLACKHAWK LAKE STATE PARK AND SAC CITY MUNICIPAL AIRPORT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 4248 9516 4245 9487 4176 9503 4176 9509
4186 9510 4186 9528
TIME...MOT...LOC 1739Z 195DEG 18KT 4210 9510
MFSpecial weather statement, Jun 14, 1:01 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA 101 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016 IAZ006-007-017-141900- WORTH IA-CERRO GORDO IA-WINNEBAGO IA- 101 PM CDT TUE JUN 14 2016 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS OVER FAR NORTHERN IOWA... AT 100 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR LAKE MILLS TO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCKFORD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MASON CITY...NORTHWOOD...LAKE MILLS...NORA SPRINGS...MANLY... EMMONS...RICE LAKE...PLYMOUTH...FERTILE...KENSETT...GRAFTON... HANLONTOWN...JOICE...ROCK FALLS...DOUGHERTY...PORTLAND...BOLAN... LAKE MILLS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT... RICE LAKE STATE PARK AND HOGSBACK WILDLIFE AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. && A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL IOWA. LAT...LON 4292 9303 4343 9361 4350 9357 4350 9302 TIME...MOT...LOC 1800Z 209DEG 26KT 4343 9351 4301 9302 MF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 14, 10:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Bremer, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, Hancock and 5 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 14, 12:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Sac | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 3:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Emmet, Palo Alto | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Kossuth | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Emmet, Kossuth, Palo Alto | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Sac | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 5:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Greene, Webster | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Greene | 43 min |
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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.