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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 27, 1986Sainte Genevieve County, Saint Francois County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1986, 5:15 PM CDT for Sainte Genevieve County, Saint Francois County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1986, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1986, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salem-Leckrone, IL at 12:00Z on 1986-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 188 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salem-Leckrone, IL at 12:00Z on 1986-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
188 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
988 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison45 min

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.