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Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this ice storm warning at Feb 6, 2019, 4:08 PM CST for Appanoose County, Davis County, Wapello County, Iowa. It took effect at Feb 7, 2019, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2019, 4:08 PM CST (22:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 7, 2019, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2019, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
Counties Appanoose County, IA, Davis County, IA, Wapello County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this ice storm warning 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 ice storm warning went out at Feb 6, 3:50 PM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 3:50 PM CST, 18 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Des Moines IA 358 PM CST Wed Feb 6 2019 IAZ027-028-033>039-044>050-057>062-070>075-081>085-092>095-072200- Butler-Bremer-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-Taylor- Ringgold-Decatur-Wayne- 358 PM CST Wed Feb 6 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Iowa. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for the area. Please refer to the National Weather Service website at weather.gov/desmoines for further details. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for the area Thursday. Please refer to the National Weather Service website at weather.gov/desmoines for further details. Bitter cold temperatures and wind chills, into the 20s below zero are expected Thursday night into early Friday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... IAZ004>007-015>017-023>026-072200- Emmet-Kossuth-Winnebago-Worth-Palo Alto-Hancock-Cerro Gordo- Pocahontas-Humboldt-Wright-Franklin- 358 PM CST Wed Feb 6 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Iowa. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for the area. Please refer to the National Weather Service website at weather.gov/desmoines for further details. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for the area through Thursday evening. Please refer to the National Weather Service website at weather.gov/desmoines for further details. Dangerous wind chills are expected on Thursday night into Friday morning of 30 to nearly 40 below. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... IAZ086-096-097-072200- Wapello-Appanoose-Davis- 358 PM CST Wed Feb 6 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Iowa. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight An Ice Storm Warning is in effect for the area. Please refer to the National Weather Service website at weather.gov/desmoines for further details. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday An Ice Storm Warning is in effect for the area through Thursday morning. Please refer to the National Weather Service website at weather.gov/desmoines for further details. Bitter cold temperatures and wind chills into the 20s below zero are expected Thursday night into early Friday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 6, 11:53 AM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 9:36 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | DMX | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more | 54 hr |
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Ice Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2019Every ice storm warning in 2019
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.