Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1986, 4:32 PM CST for Lincoln County, Missouri. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1986, 4:32 PM CST (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1986, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 042232 SVRSTL MOC113-042300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAINT LOUIS MO 432 PM CST FRI APR 4 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...LINCOLN AT 425 PM CST..RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN TROY AND WARRENTON MISSOURI..ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST#. LOUIS. THE STORM DROPPED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT WARRENTON ABOUT 420 PM. IT WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT /314/922-9120.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 11:04 AM CST, 5 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1100 AM CST FRI 4 APR 1986 AT 1150 AM CST COLUMBIA RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER STOCKTON LAKE 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE MOVING ACROSS HICKORY COUNTY INTO CAMDEN COUNTY TO NEAR THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WITH THIS THUNDERSTnORM.
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 11:05 AM CST, 5 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1100 AM CST FRI 4 APR 1986 AT 1050 AM CST COLUMBIA RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER STOCKTON LAKE 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE MOVING ACROSS HICKORY COUNTY INTO CAMDEN COUNTY TO NEAR THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WITH ToHIS THUNDERSTORM.
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 3:25 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 325 PM CST FRI APR 4 1986 AT 320 PM CST RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARSHALL AND ALSO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HERMANN. BOTH MARSHALL AND HERMANN WILL RECEIVE HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND BETWEEN 330 AND 400 PM. THERE WILL ALSO BE THE POSSIBILITY OF SMALL HAIL. THUNDERSpTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA INTO THIS EVENING. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS SITUATION. VOTAW
Nearby
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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.