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2019 Short/Medium Range Severe Weather Thread


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SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA/IL  
647 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 2019  
  
IAC103-250000-  
/O.CON.KDVN.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-190525T0000Z/  
JOHNSON IA-  
647 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 2019  
  
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR SOUTH  
CENTRAL JOHNSON COUNTY...  
          
AT 646 PM CDT, A CONFIRMED LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO WAS  
LOCATED NEAR HILLS, OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF IOWA CITY, MOVING EAST AT  
25 MPH.  
  
THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW!  
  
HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO.  
  
SOURCE...RADAR AND SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO.  
  
IMPACT...YOU ARE IN A LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION. FLYING DEBRIS MAY   
         BE DEADLY TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES   
         WILL BE DESTROYED. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO HOMES,   
         BUSINESSES, AND VEHICLES IS LIKELY AND COMPLETE DESTRUCTION   
         IS POSSIBLE.  
  
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...  
  IOWA CITY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS AND HILLS AROUND 700 PM CDT.  
  
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE IOWA  
CITY MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, SHARON CENTER, JOHNSON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS AND  
HILLS ACCESS.  
  
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 IN IOWA NEAR MILE MARKER 243

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED  
TORNADO WARNING  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA/IL  
652 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 2019  
  
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE QUAD CITIES HAS ISSUED A  
  
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...  
  SOUTHWESTERN CEDAR COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA...  
  EAST CENTRAL JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA...  
  NORTHWESTERN MUSCATINE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL IOWA...  
  
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT.  
  
* AT 652 PM CDT, A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR UNIVERSITY  
  HEIGHTS, OR NEAR IOWA CITY, MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.  
  
  HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO.  
  
  SOURCE...LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFIRMED TORNADO.  
  
  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT   
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.   
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS, WINDOWS, AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE   
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY.  
  
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...  
  IOWA CITY AROUND 705 PM CDT.  
  WEST BRANCH AROUND 720 PM CDT.  
  WEST LIBERTY AROUND 725 PM CDT.  
  
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE  
NEWPORT, SPRINGDALE, CEDAR VALLEY, IOWA CITY MUNICIPAL AIRPORT,  
MUSCATINE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS, CEDAR BLUFF, JOHNSON COUNTY  
FAIRGROUNDS, OASIS, BUCHANAN AND ELMIRA. 

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Just now, King James said:

More anecdotes from Bradley IL: Eating outside and the waitress comes out and says “holy smokes is it getting muggy”. Feels like a storm night now

Hopefully we can get something to go nearby in the next hour or two.  If not then it will be a long wait.

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Maybe cycling and down again per update.

IAC031-103-139-250045-  
/O.CON.KDVN.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-190525T0045Z/  
CEDAR IA-JOHNSON IA-MUSCATINE IA-  
704 PM CDT FRI MAY 24 2019  
  
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR  
SOUTHWESTERN CEDAR...EAST CENTRAL JOHNSON AND NORTHWESTERN MUSCATINE  
COUNTIES...  
      
AT 703 PM CDT, A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER IOWA CITY, MOVING  
EAST AT 30 MPH.  
  
HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  
  
SOURCE...LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFIRMED TORNADO JUST EAST OF THE IOWA   
         CITY AIRPORT.  
  
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT   
         SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE   
         TO ROOFS, WINDOWS, AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE DAMAGE IS   
         LIKELY.  
  
THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...  
  WEST BRANCH AROUND 720 PM CDT.  
  
OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE  
SPRINGDALE, CEDAR VALLEY, IOWA CITY MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, MUSCATINE  
COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS, CEDAR BLUFF, JOHNSON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS, HILLS  
ACCESS, OASIS, BUCHANAN AND ELMIRA.  
  
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 IN IOWA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 243 AND 262.  
   

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3 minutes ago, Indystorm said:

And man that 0-3km helicity is 300 to 400 over much of northern IL, Chi town and nw IN should anything form or move into that area.

HRRR seems to be on a downward trend with the early evening development in the area though.  That was my reasoning earlier for central/southern LOT cwa potentially being favored a bit... it was assuming vigorous (re)development along the warm front from around now through the next few hours but that is looking iffy. 

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2 hours ago, Indystorm said:

Storms beginning to fire around Macomb and in ne MO radar hole area.  Wondering if northern MO will be put under a tornado watch for storms approaching from KC or for development farther east.

so I went just down the road with a good view...as soon as it started going up...nice anvil moving in from the SW...I turned all phones and internet off to go "blind" thinking it would blowup. it got closer and closer..but there was a problem...no lightning or even thunder.....no mammatus clouds in the anvil...

 

I got a few sprinkles on the wind shield form the dying anvil...juts got home and checked the radar...looked decent in Fulton county but POOF confirmed with that cell..but storms to my NW

..

 

 

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2 minutes ago, janetjanet998 said:

so I went just down the road with a good view...as soon as it started going up...nice anvil moving in from the SW...I turned all phones and internet off to go "blind" thinking it would blowup. it got closer and closer..but there was a problem...no lightning or even thunder.....no mammatus clouds in the anvil...

 

I got a few sprinkles on the wind shield form the dying anvil...juts got home and checked the radar...POOF confirmed with that cell..but storms to my NW

..

 

 

such is the luck of the draw at times.  I think overnight might be more interesting but probably MCS action.

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..Lower Missouri Valley into Upper Midwest...
   Across northeastern Missouri into the vicinity of a warm frontal
   zone across parts of eastern Iowa and northern Illinois, it appears
   that an area of enhanced forcing (associated with a convectively
   generated or enhanced mid-level cyclonic vorticity center now
   developing northeast of the Kansas City area) may still support an
   upscale growing convective system later this evening into the
   overnight hours.  This may be accompanied by another swath of strong
   to severe wind gusts.
 

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