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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2019, 3:43 AM CDT for Buchanan County, Iowa. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2019, 3:43 AM CDT (08:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2019, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Buchanan County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 18, 12:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 12:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 18, 3:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Delaware | 53 min |
| Aug 18, 4:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Benton, Iowa, Johnson, Keokuk | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 4:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Delaware, Dubuque, Jones, Linn | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 4:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Cedar, Jones, Linn | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 5:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Jackson | 40 min |
| Aug 18, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Cedar, Clinton, Scott | 38 min |
| Aug 18, 5:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 31 min |
| Aug 18, 5:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Carroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson | 53 min |
| Aug 18, 6:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Whiteside | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 7:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Bureau | 27 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.