Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 27, 1990, 3:02 PM CST for Jefferson County, Saint Louis County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 27, 1990, 3:02 PM CST (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 27, 1990, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, MO, Saint Louis 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 272102 RRA SVRSTL ILC013-083-MOC099-189-510-272145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 302 PM CST TUE NOV 27 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS ...CALHOUN COUNTY...JERSEY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...JEFFERSON COUNTY...ST LOUIS COUNTY AND THE INDEPENDENT CITY OF ...ST LOUIS CITY A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE WARNED COUNTIES PRODUCING WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. FELDT
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 27, 1:13 PM CST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
MOZ007-IL006-IL009-271930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 108 PM CST TUE NOV 27 1990 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN PIKE COUNTY HAD MOVED INTO PIKE COUNTY ILLINOIS... TORNADO WATCHES COVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WESTERN ILLINOIS AT 105 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD CROSSED THE MISSISSIPPI AND MOVED INTO PIKE COUNTY...ILLINOIS. THIS STORM WAS ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HANNIBAL. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. STRONG WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. NO DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PIKE COUNTY MISSOURI AND PIKE COUNTY ILLINOIS UNTIL 130 PM. TUCKER
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 2:02 PM CST, 1 hour before
MOZALL-272100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 200 PM CST TUE NOV 27 1990 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL BUT EASTERN MISSOURI... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 5 MILES WIDE CONTINUED OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI FROM NEAR MONTGOMERY CITY TO ABOUT ROLLA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND VERY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE REST OF CENTRAL MISSOURI HAS DIMINISHED AND THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN THIS AREA. A BROAD AREA OF SHOWERS WERE IN MISSOURI EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR KIRKSVILLE TO COLUMBIA TO 50 MILES SO6UTH OF FORT LEONARDWOOD. LA GREE
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 2:21 PM CST, 41 minutes before
MOZ011-012-272200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 220 PM CST TUE NOV 27 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WINDS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE ST. LOUIS METRO AREA BETWEEN 230 AND 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON... AT 215 PM...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 40 MILES WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF ST. LOUIS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE METRO ST LOUIS AREA FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHWEST BETWEEN 230 AND 4 PM. AS THE STORMS PASS PEOPLE CAN EXPECT A PERIOD OF VERY STRONG AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PERHAPS HAIL. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION AS ROADS COULD BECOME FLOODED. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUWED OR IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED. FELDT
Local storm report, Nov 27, 2:29 PM CST, 33 minutes before
MO010-272030-
PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
230 PM CST TUE NOV 27 1990
TIME COUNTY REPORT
1000 BENTON LARGE TREES...A BOAT STORAGE FACILITY
AND POWER LINES DOWN JUST NORTH OF WARSAW.
TORNADO REPORTED BY CITIZEN..CONFIRMED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.
1120 BOONE HOMES DESTROYED IN MEADOW BROOK SUBDIVISION
IN WEST COLUMBIA. NUMEROUS HOMES DAMAGED
IN GEORGETOWN SUBDIVISION. EXCESSIVE DAMAGE
TO HOLIDAY HOUSE APARTMENTS IN COLUMBIA.
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO CROSSROADS WEST SHOPPING
CENTER. ROOF BLOWN OFF PIZZA HUT IN COLUMBIA.
ROOF DAMAGED AT SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
IN WEST COLUMBIA. MOBILE HOME DESTROYED IN
NORTHEASTERN COLUjMBIA.
4 BUILDINGS DAMAGED IN MCBAINE AND NUMEROUS
BUILDINGS DAMAGED IN WESTERN BOONE COUNTY.
LA GREESpecial weather statement, Nov 27, 2:38 PM CST, 24 minutes before
MOZ011-012-272200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 240 PM CST TUE NOV 27 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 230 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS ST CHARLES AND EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY AND INTO ST LOUIS AND JEFFERSON COUNTY MISSOURI AND CALHOUqN AND JERSEY COUNTY ILLINOIS BEFORE 4 PM. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS CAN EXPECT A PERIOD OF VERY STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WITH THE STORMS. MOVE INSIDE A BUILDING AND KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS AS THE STORMS NEAR. FELDT
Special weather statement, Nov 27, 2:56 PM CST, 6 minutes before
MOZ012-272200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 250 PM CST TUE NOV 27 1990 ...WINDS WILL GUST UP TO 55 MPH ACROSS MUCH OF ST. LOUIS... AT 250 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PASSED THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE AT WELDON SRPING...ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS. AS THE STORMS PASSED...WINDS HAVE GUSTED TO AROUND 45 MPH WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. WINDS AT SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS AIRPORT IN CHESTERFIELD GUSTED TO AROUND 58 MPH. BETWEEN 3 AND 4 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS ACROSS THE REST OF THE ST LOUIS METRO AREA...PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL FLOOD ROADS...AND WINDS THAT COULD GUST UP TO AROUND 55 MPH. PEOPLE ARE URGED TO MOVE INSIDE A BUILDING AND KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS AS THE STORMS NEAR. KEEP INFORMATED AND LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. FELDT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 27, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 43 min |
| Nov 27, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles, Warren | 65 min |
| Nov 27, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Franklin | 65 min |
| Nov 27, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | City of Saint Louis | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.