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Wind Chill Watch 1, NWS Des Moines, IA

January 23, 201922 counties in Iowa

NWS Des Moines, IA issued this wind chill watch at Jan 23, 2019, 3:22 PM CST for 22 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Jan 24, 2019, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 23, 2019, 3:22 PM CST (21:22 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 24, 2019, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Jan 24, 2019, 3:40 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Des Moines, IA

All 22 counties

Black Hawk County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Butler County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill watch 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 wind chill watch went out at Jan 22, 5:40 PM CST, 21 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 5:40 PM CST, 21 hours 42 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 23, 3:22 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 45 more	42 hr
Jan 23, 3:22 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DMX	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 39 more	27 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Watches in Iowa, 2019 Every wind chill watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.