Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1990, 6:57 PM CDT for Randolph County, Washington County, Illinois. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1990, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1990, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Randolph County, IL, Washington County, IL
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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KSTL 160001
SVRSTL
ILC157-189-160100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
657 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
...WASHINGTON
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING FROM ST CLAIR INTO WASHINGTON
COUNTY ILLINOIS. THIS STORM IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...
GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IT WILL MOVE ACROSS
WASHINGTON COUNTY BETWEEN 7 AND 8 PM.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
FELDTWhat 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 15, 3:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
MOZ011-012-152100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 310 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNTIL 9PM. AT 305 PM...STRONG THUNDERSORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST. LOUIS EXTENDING FROM BOWLING GREEN IN PIKE COUNTY TO WEST OF WARRENTON IN WARREN COUNTY. BETWEEN 3 AND 4PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF GUSTY WINDS..VERY HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING AND PERHAPS HAIL...WILL BE MOVING THROUGH PIKE..LINCOLN...AND WARREN COUNTIES IN MISSOURI AND PIKE AND CALHOUN COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS. THIS AREA OF STORMS SHOULD MOVE JUST N=ORTH OF ST. LOUIS HOWEVER OTHER STRONG STORMS COULD STILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR NIGHT. FELDT
Special weather statement, May 15, 3:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 340 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ..A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST MISSOURI AND MOST OF THE SOUTH THIRD OF ILLINOIS UNTIL 9PM CDT THIS EVENING.. ..A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF MISSOURI EXCEPT THE BOOTHEEL AREA UNTIL 6PM CDT THIS EVENING.. AT 333 PM CDT...A NARROW LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG WINDS..AND THE POSSIBILITY OF HAIL EXTENDED FROM THE COLUMBIA/JEFFERSON CITY AREA TO JUST SOUTH OF BOWLING GREEN MISSOURI. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS WERE NEAR SPRINGFIELD AND PITTSFIELD. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ON THE SOUTH EDGE OF AN AREA OF RAINSHOWERS STRETCHING FROM COLUMBIA MISSOURI TO DECATUR ILLINOIS. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. FMD
Special weather statement, May 15, 3:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-013-014-152145 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 345 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL MISSOURI THROUGH THIS EVENING... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL MISSOURI THROUGH THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF MID-MISSOURI NORTH OF A LINE FROM SEDALIA TO JEFFERSON CITY TO MONTGOMERY CITY. THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. STAY INDOORS IF STORMS ARE OCCURRING IN YOUR AREA. GOEBEL
Special weather statement, May 15, 4:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
MOZ011-152200 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 435 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL MISSOURI THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CANCELLED FOR MONTGOMERY AND GASCONADE COUNTIES... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF MONTGOMERY AND GASCONADE COUNTIES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL MISSOURI TONIGHT. LARM
Special weather statement, May 15, 5:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
MOZ011-152330 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 545 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 10 PM... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CANCELLED FOR SOUTHERN GASCONADE COUNTY. AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROLLA NEAR SULLIVAN MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR SOUTHERN GASCONADE COUNTY HAD PASSED AND THE THUNDERSTORM WARNI]NG WAS NO LONGER IN AFFECT...HOWEVER A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT. LA GREE
Local storm report, May 15, 6:50 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
ATTN SELS
PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
700 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990
TIME REPORT
8-9AM CDT ONE INCH OF RAIN IN 43 MINUTES REPORTED BY CO-OP OBSERVER
AT VERSAILLES IN MORGAN COUNTY.
915AM CDT ONE INCH HAIL REPORTED AT STOVER IN MORGAN COUNTY.
1000AM CDT STREET FLOODING REPORTED IN VERSAILLES- MORGAN COUNTY.
1015AM CDT STREET FLOODING..ROADWAYS UNDER WATER IN MORGAN..COLE
AND MONITEAU COUNTIES.
1145AM CDT MORGAN AND MONITEAU COUNTIES...ROADWAYS AND SPILLWAYS
FLOODED...STREET FLOODING.
1230PM CDT 67 MPH WIND RECORDED BY KMMO RADIO IN MARSHALL-SALINE CNTY.
1PM CDT TORRENTIAL RAIN...VISIBILITY REDUCED TO ZERO...GUSTY WIND
EST. 35 MPH IN BOONVILLE- COOPER COUNTY.
115PM CDT HALF INCH HAIL REPORTED AT ROCHEPORT...COOPER-BOONE COUNTY
LINE.
139PM CDT RT. WW AND RANGELINE...BOONE-CALLAWAY COUNTY LINE...TELEPHONE
POLES DOWN...TREES UPROOTED...24 INCH DIAMETER TREE TRUNK
TWISTED OFF AT BASE.
139PM CDT RT. WW AND LITTLE ROCK ROAD...CALLAWAY COUNTY...TORNADO
SIGHTED ON THE GROUND.
145PM CDT NUMEROUS ROADS IMPASSABLE DUE TO FLOODING IN SALINE...PETTIS
COOPER AND HOWARD COUNTIES.
3PM CDT NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED...TORRENTIAL RAIN IN BOONE...MONITEAU
CALLAWAY AND AUDRAIN COUNTIES.
415PM CDT 1/2 TO 3/4" HAIL JUST WEST OF HERMANN - GASCONADE COUNTY.
520PM CDT PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL - 6MI SOUTH OF OWENSVILLE IN
GASCONADE COUNTY.
LARMThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 4:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 4 hr |
| May 15, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clinton, Marion | 40 min |
| May 15, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey | 51 min |
| May 15, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 45 min |
| May 15, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 54 min |
| May 15, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 36 min |
| May 15, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 53 min |
| May 15, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clinton, Washington | 38 min |
| May 15, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond | 38 min |
| May 15, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Randolph, Saint Clair | 68 min |
| May 15, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Effingham, Fayette | 45 min |
| May 15, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.