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Wind Chill Warning 1, NWS Quad Cities, IA

January 13, 202421 counties in Iowa; 13 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this wind chill warning at Jan 13, 2024, 3:19 AM CST for 21 counties in Iowa; 13 counties in Illinois; Clark County, Scotland County, Missouri. It took effect at Jan 13, 2024, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 66 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2024, 3:19 AM CST (09:19 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 13, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
Expired: Jan 16, 2024, 12:00 PM CST
In force: 66 hr
Issued by: NWS Quad Cities, IA

All 36 counties

Benton County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jefferson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Lee County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Scott County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Washington County, IA, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Clark County, MO, Scotland County, MO

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 251 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill warning 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 wind chill warning went out at Jan 12, 5:44 PM CST, 9 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 5:44 PM CST, 9 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Quad Cities, IA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 3:19 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	DVN	Lee	9 hr
Jan 13, 3:19 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	DVN	Carroll, Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Whiteside	11 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Warnings in Iowa, 2024 Wind Chill Warnings in Illinois, 2024 Wind Chill Warnings in Missouri, 2024 Every wind chill warning in 2024

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.