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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Des Moines, IA
NWS Des Moines, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2024, 3:47 PM CDT for Davis County, Wapello County, Iowa. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 13, 2024, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2024, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Des Moines, IA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 2.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Davis County, IA, Wapello County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 462 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1343 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 Des Moines, IA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 13, 1:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Des Moines, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Webster | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Webster | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 10:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DMX | Hardin | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Franklin, Grundy, Hardin | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Appanoose, Davis | 17 min |
| Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Davis | 45 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.