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Special Weather Statement, NWS Quad Cities, IA

September 19, 2018Cedar County, Iowa County, Johnson County, Iowa

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this special weather statement at Sep 19, 2018, 2:21 PM CDT for Cedar County, Iowa County, Johnson County, Iowa. It was in force for 54 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
Sep 19, 2018, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired
Sep 19, 2018, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA

Counties Cedar County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Johnson County, IA

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 380 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2018-09-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2018-09-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 Quad Cities, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Sep 18, 6:23 PM CDT, 19 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 6:23 PM CDT, 19 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 18, 9:34 PM CDTRiver Flood WatchDVNIowa24 hr
Sep 19, 1:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNJefferson, Lee22 min
Sep 19, 1:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNJefferson, Lee, Van Buren58 min
Sep 19, 9:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNDes Moines, Henry, Washington80 min
Sep 19, 10:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WatchDVNBenton, Linn7 days
Sep 19, 10:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WatchDVNCedar, Johnson, Linn48 hr
Sep 19, 10:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WatchDVNCedar, Louisa, Muscatine35 hr
Sep 19, 11:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNCedar, Johnson, Louisa, Muscatine, Washington54 min
Sep 19, 3:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDVNHenry, Rock Island23 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Iowa, 2018Every special weather statement in 2018

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.