Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1989, 10:33 PM CDT for Marion County, Monroe County, Ralls County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 1989, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1989, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marion County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Ralls 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
Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSTL 290334
SVRSTL
MOC127-137-173-290415-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1033 PM CDT MON AUG 28 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
...SOUTHWESTERN MARION...NORTHEASTERN MONROE...RALLS
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST SHELBY COUNTY...NEAR SHELBINA OR
ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIRKSVILLE...HAS CAUSED DAMAGE TO MANY
BUILDINGS IN SHELBINA.
PERSONS IN MONROE CITY OF MONROE COUNTY AND NEW LONDON IN RALLS COUNTY
SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRI8VE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, Aug 28, 7:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 720 PM CDT MON AUG 28 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 715 PM AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEDALIA MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM PRODUCED 3/4 INCH HAIL AT ODESSA 38 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEDALIA AT 700 PM. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN PETTIS AND SALINE COUNTIES BY 800 PM...SO PERSONS IN THOSE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR HAIL..GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND VERY DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING UNTIL 900 PM. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SPOTTED MOVE TO A STRONG BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS...AND AVOID USING ELECTRICAL APPLIAN:CES. IF TIME PERMITS RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT TO THE NEAREAST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY SO IT CAN BE PASSED ALONG TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LA GREE
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 10:19 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1015 PM CDT MON AUG 28 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH SHELBY COUNTY OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 1010 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SAINT LOUIS INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL SHELBY COUNTY...NEAR SHELBYVILLE OR 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIRKSVILLE. A TROOPER IN THE AREA WAS FORCED TO STOP AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AS HE RAN INTO A "WALL" OF RAINFALL WITH GUSTY WINDS AND PEA-SIZED HAIL. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WESTERN MARION COUNTY OF MISSOURI BY 1100 PM. THE STORM SHOULD REACH SOUTHERN ADAMS AND WESTERN PIKE COUNTIES OF ILLINOIS BETWEEN 1130 PM AND MIDNIGHT. VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND.S...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE EISE
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 10:22 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1015 PM CDT MON AUG 28 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH SHELBY COUNTY OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 1010 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SAINT LOUIS INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL SHELBY COUNTY...NEAR SHELBYVILLE OR 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KIRKSVILLE. A TROOPER IN THE AREA WAS FORCED TO STOP AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AS HE RAN INTO A "WALL" OF RAINFALL WITH GUSTY WINDS AND PEA-SIZED HAIL. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WESTERN MARION COUNTY OF MISSOURI BY 1100 PM. THE STORM SHOULD REACH SOUTHERN ADAMS AND WESTERN PIKE COUNTIES OF ILLINOIS BETWEEN 1130 PM AND MIDNIGHT. VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE PREPARED TO PULL OFF THE ROAD IF YOU ARE OUT DRIVING. ALSO FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE. E2ISE
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.