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Heat Advisory 4, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this heat advisory at Aug 24, 2020, 1:30 PM CDT for 32 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2020, 1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
All 32 counties
Black Hawk County, IA, Boone County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Davis County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Greene 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, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Sac County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Worth County, IA, Wright County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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 heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Aug 23, 6:29 PM CDT, 19 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 6:29 PM CDT, 19 hours 1 minute before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.