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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 25, 1988Saint Charles County, Saint Louis County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1988, 3:50 PM CDT for Saint Charles County, Saint Louis County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 1988, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1988, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 25, 4:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	St. Louis, MO
Jul 25, 4:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	St. Charles, MO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Salem-Leckrone, IL (KSLO), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 1238 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 931 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 252053
SVRSTL
MOC183-189-252130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
350 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...
    WESTERN ST CHARLES AND WESTERN ST LOUIS COUNTIES

AT 345 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 25 MILES WEST OF ST LOUIS IN
WESTERN ST CHARLES COUNTY...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  THIS
STORM PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL NEAR OFALLON MISSOURI IN ST CHARLES
COUNTY AT 335 AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL NEAR COTTLEVILLE IN ST CHARLES
COUNTY AT 345 PM.

THE STORM WAS ALSO PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS OF RAIN THAT WERE
STOPPING TRAFFIC AND CAUSING SOME FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW AREAS.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITY AND WATER OVER
ROADS.

MCCARTHY

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

Local storm report, Jul 25, 1:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

ATTN SELS
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
130 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988
TIME           COUNTY        REPORT
CDT
1100           PETTIS         3/4 INCH HAIL AND 50 MPH WINDS IN
                              SEDALIA.
1115           PETTIS         1 INCH HAIL AND 65 MPH WINDS 2 MILES
                              SOUTHEAST OF SEDALIA.
1140           MORGAN         3/4 INCH HAIL AND 60 MPH IN VERSAILLES.
1145 TO        MORGAN         COUNTY AIRPORT VERSAILLES...APPARENT
1150           STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE...3 HANGERS COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
               7 SMALL AIRCRAFT DAMAGED AND 2 DESTROYED. 2 CARS AND 3 BOATS
               SEVERLY DAMAGED. ONE PLANE THROWN INTO A HOUSE TRAILER. LARGE
               AIR CONDITIONER UNIT BLOWN OFF OF ROOF OF DEPARTEMENT STORE.
1211           MILLER          POWER LINES DOWN SOUTH OF ELDON.
HAGEMEYER

Local storm report, Jul 25, 1:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

ATTN SELS
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
130 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988
TIME           COUNTY        REPORT
CDT
1100           PETTIS         3/4 INCH HAIL AND 50 MPH WINDS IN
                              SEDALIA.
1115           PETTIS         1 INCH HAIL AND 65 MPH WINDS 2 MILES
                              SOUTHEAST OF SEDALIA.
1140           MORGAN         3/4 INCH HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS IN
                              VERSAILLES.
1145 TO        MORGAN         COUNTY AIRPORT...VERSAILLES...APPARENT
1150           STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE...3 HANGERS COMPLETELY
               DESTROYED. 7 SMALL AIRCRAFT DAMAGED AND 2 DESTROYED.
               2 CARS AND 3 BOATS SEVE,RLY DAMAGED. ONE PLANE THROWN
               INTO A HOUSE TRAILER. LARGE AIR CONDITIONER UNIT
               BLOWN OFF OF ROOF OF DEPARTEMENT STORE.
1211           MILLER          POWER LINES DOWN SOUTH OF ELDON.
HAGEMEYER

Local storm report, Jul 25, 1:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

ATTN SELS
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
130 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988
TIME           COUNTY        REPORT
CDT
1100           PETTIS         3/4 INCH HAIL AND 50 MPH WINDS IN
                              SEDALIA.
1115           PETTIS         1 INCH HAIL AND 65 MPH WINDS 2 MILES
                              SOUTHEAST OF SEDALIA.
1140           MORGAN         3/4 INCH HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS IN
                              VERSAILLES.
1145 TO        MORGAN         COUNTY AIRPORT...VERSAILLES...APPARENT
1150           STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE...3 HANGERS COMPLETELY
               DESTROYED. 7 SMALL AIRCRAFT DAMAGED AND 2 DESTROYED.
               2 CARS AND 3 BOATS SEVERLY DAMAGED. ONE PLANE THROWN
               INTO A HOUSE TRAILER. LARGE AIR CONDITIONER UNIT
               BLOWN OFF OF ROOF OF DEPARTEMENT STORE. NO INJURIES
               REPORTED FROM THIS STORM.
1211           MILLER          POWER LINES DOWN SO1UTH OF ELDON.
HAGEMEYER

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
220 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL MISSOURI
...INCLUDING THE COLUMBIA AND JEFFERSON CITY VICINITIES AND THE LAKE
OF THE OZARKS  AND TRUMAN LAKES AREAS. AND

THIS AREA IS GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ROLLA TO NEVEDA MISSOURI.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS CONTINUED IN EFFECT FOR THE
ST LOUIS AREA ANDY MOST OF SOUTH MISSOURI EXCEPT THE BOOTHEEL.

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
228 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND
A LARGE PART OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNTIL 5 PM CDT...

AT 218 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY...MISSOURI
ABOUT 30 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF ST LOUIS.  THIS STORM
WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  IT WILL PASS SOUTH OF UNION MISSOURI
AND MOVE TO ABOUT DE SOTO MISSOURI BETWEEN 245 AND 330 PM.  THE
STORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...INTENSE LIGHTNING...STRONG
WIND GUSTS AND SOME HAIL.  A SECOND STRONG STORM WAS ABOUT 35 MILES
NORTHEAST OF ST LOUIS JUST ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF GREENVILLE...ILLINOIS.
THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH BOND COUNTY BETWEEN 245 AND 315 AND
WILL ALSO PRODUCE STRONG WIND...HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND INTENSE
LIGHTNING.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN A LINE FROM 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
ST LOUIS TO 60 MILES NORTHE]AST OF ST LOUIS.  THESE STORMS WILL PASS
OVER THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREA BETWEEN 3 AND 430 PM.  THE
RAIN WILL BE SOMEWHAT SPOTTY BUT SOME LOCATIONS COULD RECEIVE
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND HAIL.

TUCKER

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:25 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
320 PM CDT MON JUL 25 1988

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
...INCLUDING THE JOPLIN SPRINGFIELD AND TABLE ROCK LAKE VICINITIES.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS CONTINUED IN EFFECT FOR THE
ST LOUIS AREA AND MOST OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI EXCEPT THE BOOTHEEL.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin	45 min
Jul 25, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Charles	36 min
Jul 25, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	36 min
Jul 25, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Perry	29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.