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Flood Watch 2, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this flood watch at Jul 6, 2022, 8:02 PM CDT for 5 counties in Iowa; Hancock County, Henderson County, McDonough County, Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri. It took effect at Jul 7, 2022, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 29 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2022, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 7, 2022, 12:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2022, 5:18 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Lee County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 402 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
- 1835 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 16.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jul 6, 7:05 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 7:05 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 9:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Keokuk | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Benton, Buchanan, Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Iowa and 4 more | 112 min |
| Jul 7, 6:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Jackson | 34 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.