Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1989, 12:41 PM CDT for Saint Charles County, Warren County, Missouri. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 1989, 12:41 PM CDT (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1989, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Saint Charles County, MO, Warren 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 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 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 031745
SVRSTL
MOC183-219-031845-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1241 PM CDT MON APR 3 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
...SOUTHERN WARREN...ST CHARLES...
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES gWEST OF
UNION MISSOURI...OR ABOUT 40 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF ST LOUIS.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM HAS
PRODUCED HAIL TO GOLF BALL SIZED.
TUCKERWhat 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 3, 11:41 AM CDT, 1 hour before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1135 AM CDT MON APR 3 1989 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4PM THIS AFTERNOON FROM SOUTHWEST MISSOURI THROUGH EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI. AT 1133 AM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN CENTRAL MISSOURI BETWEEN COLUMBIA AND JEFFERSON CITY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PEA SIZE AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL WERE REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. LIGHT RAIN WAS IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. WIPFLER
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 12:00 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 12 PM CDT MON APR 3 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 4PM... ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1156 AM CDT VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH WERE LOCATED IN CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM 20 MILES WEST OF JEFFERSON CITY NEAR CALIFORNIA TO 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JEFFERSON CITY NEAR OWENSVILLE. MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT LINN IN OSAGE COUNTY AT 1150 AM. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF OWENSVILLE AMD JUST EAST OF LINN...20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JEFFERSON CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. RESIDENTS OF OSAGE AND GASCONADE COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK COVER IN A WINDOWLESS INTERIOR ROOM OR BASEMENT. HAGEMEYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 68 min |
| Apr 3, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Perry, Sainte Genevieve | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.