Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1988, 6:28 PM CDT for Dent County, Phelps County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 5, 1988, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 1988, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dent County, MO, Phelps 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 6:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Phelps, 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1334 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 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 052328
SVRSTL
MOC065-161-060015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAINT LOUIS MO
628 PM CDT TUE APR 5 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
NORTHWEST DENT...
IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI
PHELPS...
AT 620 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 20 TO 30
MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROLLA MISSOURI MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
AT 609 PM LARGE HAIL...JUST OVER ONE INCH DIAMETER...FELL AT
FORT LEONARD WOOD MISSOURI AND WINDS GUSTED TO 57 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREAT ENED BY THE STORM..GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.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, Apr 5, 4:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 405 PM CDT TUE APR 5 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 10PM... ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING RAPIDLY INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 403 PM CDT A LINE OF VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM JUST SOUTHWEST OF SEDALIA TO 10 MILES WEST OF WARSAW TO 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH PETTIS ...BENTON AND HICKORY COUNTIES BETWEEN 410 AN 445PM AND WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN INTENSITY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES ARE EXPECTED TO SWEEP THROUGH MUCH OF CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. RESIDENTS SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARbNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HAGEMEYER
Special weather statement, Apr 5, 5:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND MISSOURI WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 500 PM CDT TUE APR 5 1988 ...TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST MISSOURI THROUGH THE COLUMBIA AREA INTO THE SPRINGFIELD AREA AT 5 PM. THIS LINE WAS IN ADVANCE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM THE LOW 60S TO THE LOW 90S. KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL WAS REPORTING 61 DEGREES WHILE THE SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS AIRPORT WAS REPORTING 91. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA ARE ADVISED TO BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. WS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Ralls | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.