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Special Weather Statement, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2016, 4:33 AM CDT for Polk County, Iowa. It was in force for 57 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
- Jul 18, 2016, 4:33 AM CDT (09:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2016, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
County Polk County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 1666 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jul 17, 11:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 11:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Des Moines IA 1155 PM CDT Sun Jul 17 2016 ...Updated for 18/06Z Aviation Discussion... .SHORT TERM.../Tonight/ Issued at 356 PM CDT Sun Jul 17 2016 Very difficult forecast tonight as the convection from earlier today has modified the airmass over Iowa. However with the clearing taking place and the cold front still off to the West we should continue to destabilize through late afternoon into the evening hours. Northern Iowa appears to be considerably more stable than the Southeast half of the state however it appears that further convection will wait for a shortwave over the central plains to move East as the cold front inches across the forecast area. The result will be a redevelopment of storms from early to mid evening into the overnight hours. Radar is showing storms festering over Eastern Nebraska and the HRRR model depicts this remarkably well. I based much of the timing off the HRRR and trying to time the shortwave coming in. The potential for damaging wind and heavy rain will again exist with the storms. .LONG TERM.../Monday through Sunday/ Issued at 356 PM CDT Sun Jul 17 2016 Storms should clear the Southern/Southeast portion of the forecast area by early morning and clouds should clear some but low level moisture will not be scoured completely out by the frontal passage and we should see a fair amount of cloud cover through the day. Monday night and Tuesday we will see a return of strong warm advection and deeper moisture returning along with a decent shortwave pushing across Iowa...especially from 09Z Tuesday through about 18Z Tuesday. This will bring another round of strong to severe storms and heavy rainfall to the area. Lingering storm chances occur into Wednesday as we remain on the East side of the building ridge axis and some weaker shortwaves top this ridge. For later Wednesday through at least Friday, temperatures will be quite hot and with dewpoints in the mid 70s it will be very muggy with oppressive heat in place Thursday. Some relief looks likely over the weekend as a strong shortwave flattens the ridge in place bringing temps back down...along with a chance for storms. && .AVIATION.../For the 06Z TAFS through 06Z Tuesday night/ Issued at 1155 PM CDT Sun Jul 17 2016 Scattered to areas of SHRA/TSRA expected to impact the southern third of Iowa overnight. Mainly VFR conditions are expected...but conditions may briefly go MVFR within the TSRA. KOTM is most likely to see the activity...followed by KDSM. && .DMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && SHORT TERM...FAB LONG TERM...FAB AVIATION...Zogg
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 3:50 AM CDT, 43 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 18, 2:24 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 12:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Adams, Taylor | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Adams | 26 min |
| Jul 18, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Taylor | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams, Taylor | 38 min |
| Jul 18, 1:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Boone, Greene | 29 min |
| Jul 18, 3:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Adams, Cass, Ringgold, Taylor, Union | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Tama | 63 min |
| Jul 18, 3:43 PM CDT | Excessive Heat Watch | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 36 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.