Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1989, 10:11 PM CDT for Franklin County, Washington County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1989, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1989, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, MO, Washington 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
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 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
- 1732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 260313 SVRSTL MOC071-221-260345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1011 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1989 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... FRANKLIN AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON AT 1005 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JEFFERSON CITY MISSOURI...JUST NORTH OF ROSE BUD IN GASCONADE COUNTY. ANOTHER WAS 30 MILES EAST OF ROLLA...ON THE CRAWFORD... WASHINGTON COUNTY LINE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THE DANGERS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND AND LIGHTNING BY REMAINING INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH jLITTLE OR NO WARNING. 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
Special weather statement, May 25, 7:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 730 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST MISSOURI AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH ILLINOIS UNTIL 10PM... ...ANOTHER TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 1 AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO INCREASE FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF MISSOURI NORTHEASTWARD JUST SOUTH OF I-44 TO JUST SOUTH OF ST LOUIS. SINCE 630 PM GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT NEOSHO...IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE STATE. NO OTHER SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED. HOWEVER RAPID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI SHOULD KEEP ABREAST iOF LOCAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING. TORNADOES OFTEN DEVELOP QUICKLY WITHOUT WARNING. PEDIGO
Special weather statement, May 25, 7:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 740 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST MISSOURI AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH ILLINOIS UNTIL 10PM... AT 729 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS JUST EAST OF SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS. PERSONS BETWEEN DECATUR AND BLOOMINGTON SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THAT MAY ACCOMPANY THE STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS STRETCHING FROM CENTRAL MISSOURI TO EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS AREA WILL LIKELY BE VERY ACTIVE THIS EVENING...WITH SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENTq POSSIBLE. DYER
Special weather statement, May 25, 8:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 830 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH #330 FOR CENTRAL AND EAST MISSOURI UNTIL 10PM... ...TORNADO WATCH #332 FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 1AM... AT 830 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI..WITH TWO THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED BETWEEN BOLIVAR AND WARSAW. THIS IS 30 TO 50 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD. THERE WAS ALSO A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WAYNESVILLE..OR 40 MILES SOUTH OF JEFFERSON CITY. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE GUSTY WIND AND SMALL HAIL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI.. AND ALL OF THEM WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. GV
Special weather statement, May 25, 8:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 840 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST MISSOURI AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH ILLINOIS UNTIL 10PM... AT 835 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUINCY AND NEAR MEXICO MISSOURI...JUST NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA. PERSONS IN THE QUINCY/HANNIBAL AREA AND IN AUDRAIN AND PIKE COUNTIES IN EASTERN MISSOURI SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE STORM MOVES TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS STRETCHING FROM CENTRAL MISSOURI TO EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS AREA WILL LIKELY BE VERY ACTIVE THIS EVENING...WITH SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE. DYER
Special weather statement, May 25, 9:17 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 910 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST MISSOURI AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH ILLINOIS UNTIL 10PM... ...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 1 AM CDT... AT 9 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR JEFFERSON CITY...LEBANON...AND 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST LOUIS. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE CELLS ABOUT 9 PM THIS EVENING. LOCALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF MISSOURI. PERSONS CONTINUE TO MONITER LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS B EEN REPORTED SINCE 8PM...BUT THE POTENTIAL STILL EXISTS...BE PREPARED. PEDIGO
Special weather statement, May 25, 9:47 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 945 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST MISSOURI AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH ILLINOIS UNTIL 10PM... AT 933 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND ONE INCH HAIL WAS JUST SOUTH OF JEFFERSON CITY MISSOURI. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE JUST EAST OF ROLLA NEAR ST JAMES MISSOURI AND 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST LOUIS IN WEST LINCOLN COUNTY MISSOURI. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS AND IN OSAGE...CALLAWAY AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN MISSOURI SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE STORM MOVE TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WEERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS STRETCHING FROM CENTRAL MISSOURI TO EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THIS AREA WILL BE VERY ACTIVE THIS EVENING...WITH SEVERE STORM DEVELOPMENT PROBABLE. DYER
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.