Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 15, 1988, 6:27 PM CST for Monroe County, Shelby County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 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
- Nov 15, 1988, 6:27 PM CST (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 1988, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monroe County, MO, Shelby 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 6:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Shelby, MO | |
| Nov 15, 6:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Monroe, 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
Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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, Nov 15, 4:28 PM CST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 528 PM CST TUE NOV 15 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH CLEARED ALONG THE MISSOURI...KANSAS LINE... TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST... NORTH CENTRAL...CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. BUT THE TORNADO WATCH ISSUED EARLIER TODAY IN WESTERN MISSOURI HAS BEEN CLEARED ALONG THE MISSOURI...KANSAS LINE...FROM AROUND MARYVILLE...SOUTH THROUGH KANSAS CITY...THEN SOUTH THROUGH NEVADA...NEOSHO AND JOPLIN. SURFACE WINDS WILL REMAIN STRONG AND GUSTY OVER MOST OF MISSOURI TONIGHT...AT LEAST DURING THE EVENING HOURS...BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THE FAR WEST PART OF THE STATE HAS ENDED. JUST BEFORE 430 PM THE STRONGEST STORMS IN MISSOURI WERE IN A BAND FROM THE NORTH CENTRAL COUNTIES...THROUGH JUST WEST OF SEDALIA... TO THE AREA BETWEEN JOPLIN AND SPRINGFIELD. MCCARTHY
Special weather statement, Nov 15, 4:56 PM CST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 455 PM CST TUE NOV 15 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND WESTERN MISSOURI UNTIL 8PM... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 453 PM A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH WAS CENTERED FROM ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF MARSHALL NEAR SUMNER TO 20 MILES WEST OF MARSHALL TO 15 MILES WEST OF SEDALIA TO WARSAW. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL SPREAD ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS YET BEEN REPORTED FROM THESE STORMS THEY MAY CONTIUE TO INCREASE IN INTENSITY AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES REMAIN POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI UNITL 8PM. RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HAGEMEYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adair, Schuyler, Scotland | 33 min |
| Nov 15, 6:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 33 min |
| Nov 15, 6:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Phelps | 38 min |
| Nov 15, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Ralls | 43 min |
| Nov 15, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 45 min |
| Nov 15, 7:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Warren | 67 min |
| Nov 15, 7:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Dent | 48 min |
| Nov 15, 8:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles | 41 min |
| Nov 15, 8:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 41 min |
| Nov 15, 8:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Washington | 44 min |
| Nov 15, 8:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 41 min |
| Nov 15, 9:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson, Saint Louis | 44 min |
| Nov 15, 9:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | City of Saint Louis | 44 min |
| Nov 15, 10:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 46 min |
| Nov 15, 9:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Monroe, Saint Clair | 50 min |
| Nov 15, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Saint Clair | 35 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.