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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Quad Cities, IA
NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2024, 9:44 PM CDT for Benton County, Buchanan County, Iowa. It was in force for 61 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
- May 8, 2024, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2024, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Quad Cities, IA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Benton County, IA, Buchanan County, IA
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 367 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1394 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:39 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | DVN | Clinton, Scott | 24 hr |
| May 8, 9:10 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | DVN | Benton, Iowa | 4 days |
| May 8, 9:10 PM CDT | River Flood Watch | DVN | Louisa, Muscatine | 6 days |
| May 8, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Buchanan, Linn | 45 min |
| May 9, 1:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DVN | Benton, Iowa, Keokuk | 39 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.