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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 8, 1988Perry County, Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri; Randolph County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1988, 7:30 PM CDT for Perry County, Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri; Randolph County, Illinois. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1988, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1988, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Randolph County, IL, Perry 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 00:00Z on 1988-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 96 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 00:00Z on 1988-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 213 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1931 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
429 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
May 8, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson, Perry, Washington45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1988Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.