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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 8, 1988Madison County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1988, 6:48 PM CDT for Madison County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1988, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1988, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Madison 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 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.

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, Jun 8, 2:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
226 PM CDT WED JUN 8 1988

...STRONG STORMS IN WEST CENTRAL TO CENTRAL ILLINOIS...

AT 225 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE OCCURRING IN A
60 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST LOUIS...AT LOUISIANA MISSOURI. ALSO 30 TO 35
MILES SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AROUND THE WAVERLY AREA
OF ILLINOIS.
THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE ILLINOIS COUNTIES OF PIKE...SOUTHEASTERN
MORGAN...SANGAMON...NORTHERN MACOUPIN AND WESTERN CHRISTIAN BETWEEN
230PM TO 330PM.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

SHOWERS AND OTHER STORMS WERE OCCURRING IN A SMALL PART OF NORTHEAST
MISSOURI INTO A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

RADAR NOWCAST...THESE STORMS AND SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE IN PARTS OF
NORTHEAST MISSOURI INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS UNTIL LATE THIS EVENING.
SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL DEVELOP INTO PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST
CENTRAL MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO
THIS EVENING.

BB

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
315PM CDT WED JUN 8 1988

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...

AT 313 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL
AND GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY NORTH OF
MONTGOMERY CITY...35 TO 45 MILES EAST OF COLUMBIA. THESE STORMS
WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE MONTGOMERY CITY AND BELLFLOWER AREAS.
RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THREATENING WEATHER
AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
HAGEMEYER

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
330 PM CDT WED JUN 8 1988

...STRONG STORMS IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI INTO SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...

AT 328 PM CDT...A VERY STRONG STORM WAS OCCURRING 40 MILES NORTH
NORTHWEST OF ST LOUIS MISSOURI...IN NORTHERN CALHOUN COUNTY ILLINOIS.
THIS STORM WILL HAVE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE
HAIL.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE OCCURRING IN A LARGE CLUSTER
FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA MISSOURI TO 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF
ST LOUIS MISSOURI.

THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE MISSOURI COUNTIES OF MONTGOMERY...PIKE
AND LINCOLN AND THE ILLINOIS COUNTIES OF CALHOUN...GREENE...JERSEY
AND 'MACOUPIN BETWEEN 430PM TO 530PM
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
BB

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
430 PM CDT WED JUN 8 1988

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN
MISSOURI UNTIL 10PM...
...WARNINGS FOR GASCONADE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES HAVE EXPIRED...

AT 428 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL
AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH WERE LOCATED IN A NARROW LINE FROM THE
HERMANN AREA...40 MILES NORTHEAST OF JEFFERSON CITY TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF JEFFERSON CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. NO OTHER
THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER ABOUT THE SOUTHERN
HALF OF CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS EVENING. RESIxDENTS SHOULD BE ON THE
LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTERN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
HAGEMEYER

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Charles, Warren	45 min
Jun 8, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin	39 min
Jun 8, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	57 min
Jun 8, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Charles	57 min
Jun 8, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Jefferson	60 min
Jun 8, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron, Reynolds	42 min
Jun 8, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison, Saint Clair	50 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.