Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 1987, 2:13 AM CST for Franklin County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 1987, 2:13 AM CST (08:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1987, 2:45 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin 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 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 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 220812
SVRSTL
MOC071-220845-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
213 AM CST SUN MAR 22 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... FRANKLIN
AT 208 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF
UNION MISSOURI MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD MOVE THROUGH
UNION BY 230 AM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH
...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.
MCCARTHYWhat 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, Mar 21, 10:12 PM CST, 4 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1010 PM CST SAT MAR 21 1987 ....THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTH PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI.... AT 1005PM CST COLUMBIAS RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN AN AREA OF MOSTLY MODERATE SHOWERS IN CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE AREA WAS ABOUT 20 MILES WIDE..SOUTHEAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 35 MILES EAST OF COLUMBIA TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON CITY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A SMALL CLUSTER AROUND BAGNELL DAM AND BETWEEN TUSCUMBIA AND FREEBURG...ALSO AROUND LINN IN OSAGE COUNTY. VERY HEAVY SHOWERS..INTENSE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING..AND PEA-SIZED HAIL WERE REPORTED ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF> LINN AROUND 945PM CST. THE THUNDERSTOMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 21, 11:43 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1140 PM CST SAT MAR 21 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPE IN SOUTH COUNTIES OF CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1130 PM CST COLUMBIAS RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY SHOWERS IN AN AREA ABOUT 50 MILES WIDE, SOUTHEAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF ST. LOUIS, TO OSCEOLA TO GOLDEN CITY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN ELDON AND RADAR INDICATED THE POSSIBILITY OF SMALL HAIL WITH MANY OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE GENERAL AREA MOVED TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS REuPORTED IN CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 12:49 AM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1245 AM CST SUN MAR 22 1987 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1230AM CST COLUMBIAS RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY SHOWERS IN AN AREA COVERING ALL OF CENTRAL MISSOURI SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM ST. LOUIS TO MID-WAY BETWEEN COLUMBIA AND JEFFERSON CITY ON DOWN TO EL DORADO SPRINGS IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT IN WHEATLAND..IN HICKORY COUNTY..SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN PEA SIZE HAIL IN JEFFERSON CITY.. POWER OUTAGE IN CAMDENTON DUE TO INTENSE LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOURS. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS REPORTED OR INDICATED BY RADAR IN CENTRAL MISSOURI DURING THE LAST HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 1:45 AM CST, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 140 AM CST SUN MAR 22 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS...HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE ACROSS MID-MISSOURI... AT 130 AM CST COLUMBIAS RADAR SHOWED THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING MORE WIDELY SCATTERED...IN AN AREA COVERING CENTRAL MISSOURI SOUTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM WELLSVILLE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY TO ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF SEDALIA, AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR SEDALIA TO OSCEOLA. THE HEAVIEST SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM WARSAW TO NEAR TIPTON, AND FROM IBERIA TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF VICHY. MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 5 MILES SOUTH OF WARSAW IN BENTON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR.
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.