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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2022, 2:53 PM CDT for 4 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 52 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
- Jun 5, 2022, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2022, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Hamilton County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Webster County, IA, Wright County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
434
WUUS53 KDMX 051953
SVRDMX
IAC079-091-187-197-052045-
/O.NEW.KDMX.SV.W.0080.220605T1953Z-220605T2045Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Des Moines IA
253 PM CDT Sun Jun 5 2022
The National Weather Service in Des Moines has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Webster County in central Iowa...
Southern Wright County in north central Iowa...
Southeastern Humboldt County in north central Iowa...
Northern Hamilton County in central Iowa...
* Until 345 PM CDT.
* At 253 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles east of
Fort Dodge Regional Airport, or 8 miles northeast of Fort Dodge,
moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
Eagle Grove and Sportsman Park around 310 PM CDT.
Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include
Woolstock, Big Wall Lake and Galt.
This includes Interstate 35 between mile markers 146 and 152.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4248 9411 4266 9414 4275 9356 4248 9352
TIME...MOT...LOC 1953Z 263DEG 21KT 4258 9403
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
REV2 follow-up statements
481
WWUS53 KDMX 052018
SVSDMX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Des Moines IA
318 PM CDT Sun Jun 5 2022
IAC091-052028-
/O.CAN.KDMX.SV.W.0080.000000T0000Z-220605T2045Z/
Humboldt IA-
318 PM CDT Sun Jun 5 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
LAT...LON 4248 9407 4269 9392 4275 9356 4248 9352
TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 263DEG 21KT 4260 9383
$$
IAC079-187-197-052045-
/O.CON.KDMX.SV.W.0080.000000T0000Z-220605T2045Z/
Webster IA-Wright IA-Hamilton IA-
318 PM CDT Sun Jun 5 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN WEBSTER...SOUTHERN WRIGHT AND NORTHERN HAMILTON
COUNTIES...
At 318 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Eagle Grove, or
9 miles north of Webster City, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Big Wall Lake and Galt.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 4248 9407 4269 9392 4275 9356 4248 9352
TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 263DEG 21KT 4260 9383
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
REV649
WWUS53 KDMX 052037
SVSDMX
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Des Moines IA
337 PM CDT Sun Jun 5 2022
IAC079-187-197-052046-
/O.EXP.KDMX.SV.W.0080.000000T0000Z-220605T2045Z/
Webster IA-Wright IA-Hamilton IA-
337 PM CDT Sun Jun 5 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WEBSTER...
SOUTHERN WRIGHT AND NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 345 PM
CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However gusty
winds and heavy rain are still possible with this thunderstorm.
To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
Des Moines .
LAT...LON 4248 9407 4269 9392 4275 9356 4248 9352
TIME...MOT...LOC 2036Z 263DEG 21KT 4261 9370
$$
REVWhat 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 Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 2:31 PM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:31 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Des Moines IA 231 PM CDT Sun Jun 5 2022 .DISCUSSION.../Tonight through Sunday/ Issued at 231 PM CDT Sun Jun 5 2022 Key messaging highlights: * Three precip windows of note through the period, most significant of which may be tonight * Normal to below normal temperatures Our recent fairly zonal weather pattern will remain unchanged into the middle of next week with short waves of note into tonight and then again into the middle of next week. The pattern will begin a transition to more amplification shortly after that time, with even more pronounced amplification and Rockies ridging next weekend. The initial short wave of concern is currently across western sections of Nebraska and the Dakotas and continues to enhance large scale lift ahead into the MO Valley. Fairly steady-state lower end convection continues across Nebraska, northern Iowa, and now more recent isolated development near Creston. These should all continue moving into an environment to potentially become rooted lower and become surface based, if it hasn't already. MLCAPEs are currently 1500 J/kg over western Iowa, but there isn't much low level focus or convergence to latch on to. However would expect some expansion and intensification into early this evening due to the more favorable airmass and larger scale support. Overall, the severe potential doesn't look great with effective shear of 25-30kts, unimpressive mid level lapse rates, and soundings appearing to further moisten, but some convection allowing models (CAMs) do suggest outperforming those expectations with some organization and severe potential. The CAMs,suggest some wind potential, and our recent isolated storm hail, so both appear to be on the table to some degree. 0-1km kinematics aren't favorable for tornadoes, but with low LCLs and healthy three-figure 0-3km CAPEs a brief funnel cloud or thermodynamically dominate landspout/tornado cannot be ruled out. Homogeneous surface winds would be a detriment to that, with more favorable surface shear/vorticity areas more favorable. As the intensity fades later this evening with the loss of insolation, outflow may provide a focus for further convection later tonight. Although inhibition and the lack of effective shear should reduce any severe potential, 925/850mb moisture transport and low level convergence may sustain the convection with attention turning to heavy rain potential. Neither the 25-30kts of low level jet support or 1.5" precipitable water values are particularly noteworthy for early June, but even seasonal early June parameter space is sufficient for at least some heavy rain potential, and this may be further compounded by the mean wind and low level jet combining for quite weak Corfidi/upshear propagation vectors. This could result in isolated heavy rain amounts, which the 12Z HREF is supporting with localized 2+" amounts quite possible across the northern half of Iowa. There is some north to south placement uncertainty depending on the magnitude of outflow, and initial convective placement and maturation. The 12z HREF suggests the eastern Highway 20 corridor being favored, but the recent Creston develop suggests it may be farther south. Current 3hr flash flood guidance is slightly above these QPF expectations, and the higher end accumulations would be fairly isolated, so river flooding is not expected either which is also support by null 12Z RFC forecasts. Some spotty weak convection may linger south and east into Monday, but that should end by early evening with any potential for surface based re- development through peak heating likely just south and east of the forecast area. After a break Monday Night into Tuesday, our attention will turn to short waves ejecting out of the current upper low off the BC coast, traversing the Pacific NW before reaching the central and high Plains Tuesday. Weak to moderate thermodynamic and kinematic support will increase chances for convection later into the day through early Wednesday. Highs in the 70s and marginal dewpoints will keep MLCAPEs ~1000 J/kg or less and any severe threat tempered, but the deep shear will be impressive (50-60kts) with elongated, linear hodographs. This will keep a few strong to severe storms and organized cells in play with an eye toward splitting supercells if the available instability can be realized. Some convection may linger into early Wednesday, but a dry period with a continued seasonally cool and less humid airmass will be in place with surface high pressure into Thursday. As the pattern begins to amplify at this point, we start our transition to northwest flow aloft. The 12Z EC and GFS both suggest a short wave will top the ridge Thursday and highlight significant activation of the baroclinic zone with noted theta-e advection and frontogenetic response. The uncertainty will be the SW-NE placement and how far into Iowa it gets. Neither the EC or GFS deterministic or ensemble guidance suggests much instability return into Iowa, but it won't be far away. Even without appreciable instability, the degree of forcing and moisture return through the MO Valley suggests appreciable rainfall is possible north and/or west. This should slide into the OH Valley for the weekend, with fair weather anticipated. Some low chances will return as the pattern becomes more progressive, and the ridge begins shifting eastward with a western trough into the picture, but this would likely be late in the weekend and beyond the valid period into the start of the next work week. && .AVIATION.../For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Monday afternoon/ Issued at 1246 PM CDT Sun Jun 5 2022 VFR conditions will remain in place this afternoon, but spotty thunderstorms will begin affecting KFOD and KMCW into the early evening hours. This will be followed by additional showers and storms affecting other locations later this evening and tonight, with MVFR or IFR ceilings also developing. The convection should diminish, but MVFR ceilings are expected to linger into Monday morning in most locations as winds become more northerly. && .DMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && DISCUSSION...Small AVIATION...Small
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 2:51 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Des Moines IA 251 PM CDT Sun Jun 5 2022 IAZ004>007-015>017-023>028-033>039-044>050-057>062-070>075- 081>086-092>097-062000- Emmet-Kossuth-Winnebago-Worth-Palo Alto-Hancock-Cerro Gordo- Pocahontas-Humboldt-Wright-Franklin-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-Wapello-Taylor-Ringgold-Decatur-Wayne- Appanoose-Davis- 251 PM CDT Sun Jun 5 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Iowa. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight Rain showers and thunderstorms are expected tonight. There is a Marginal Risk for severe storms this evening. Storms may be capable of producing hail and damaging winds. There is a conditional threat for tornado development. Locally heavy rainfall may also occur with some storms. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday Additional rain shower and thunderstorms are expected throughout the week. Stronger storms may be possible on Tuesday. Locally heavy rainfall may also occur with some rain shower or thunderstorm events. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters reports may be needed this afternoon and evening.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adair, Union | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Hamilton, Humboldt, Webster, Wright | 5 min |
| Jun 5, 3:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Madison | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Dallas | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk | 16 min |
| Jun 5, 4:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Boone | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Butler, Franklin, Grundy, Hardin | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Boone | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 5:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Dallas | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Dallas, Guthrie | 50 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.