Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1990, 3:03 PM CDT for Franklin County, Saint Louis County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1990, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1990, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSTL 022006
SVRSTL
MOC071-189-022045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
303 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
...NORTHEASTERN FRANKLIN...WESTERN ST LOUIS
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN FRANKLIN COUNTY AND
WILL MOVE INTO ST LOUIS COUNTY BEFORE 330 PM. DAMAGING WINDS
AND HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVA9NCE 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, Jun 2, 9:52 AM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
MOZ012-021700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 945 AM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990 ...IT WILL BE A STORMY DAY IN ST. LOUIS... AT 945 AM...NUMEROUS BANDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN MISSOURI. A WEAK AREA OF SHOWERS WAS CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS ST LOUIS WITH GENERALLY ONLY LIGHT SHOWERS. ANOTHER NARROW BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS 40 MILES WEST AND SOUTH OF ST LOUIS AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE METRO AREA BEFORE NOON. STILL ANOTHER AREA WAS LOCATED IN CENTRAL MISSOURI. THIS COULD BE THE STRONGEST LINE OF STORMS AND IT WILL REACH ST LOUIS DURING THE MID OR LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. THUS...LOOK FOR SEVERE PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND STORMS IN THE ST LOUIS AREA THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FROM 2 AND 6PM. FELDT
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 11:46 AM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
MOZALL-021900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND MISSOURI WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1130 AM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990 ...THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AS OF 11 AM...A COLD FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS CENTRAL IOWA INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THIS FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. SEVERE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP IN EAST MISSOURI BETWEEN 2 AND 4 PM THEN MOVE ACROSS ILLINOIS AND INDIANA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE NIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. AS OF MIDDAY...NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED IN MISSOU%RI. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL WATCH THIS SITUATION THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 1 PM OR SOONER IF NEEDED. FELDT
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:33 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
MOZALL-022020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 227 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED RAPIDLY JUST NORTH OF CUBA MISSOURI... AT 225 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF CUBA...MISSOURI OR ABOUT 60 MILES WEST...SOUTHWEST OF ST LOUIS. THIS STORM HAD DEVELOPED VERY RAPIDLY. IT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH SULLIVAN AND HEAD JUST SOUTH OF UNION...MISSOURI. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF CAPE GIRARDEAU. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLY HAIL...AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. TUCKER
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:51 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
MOZALL-022030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 248 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990 ...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD UNION MISSOURI... AT 252 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 50 MILES WEST...SOUTHWEST OF ST LOUIS AND WAS HEADING TOWARD UNION. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL AND VERY STRONG WINDS...AS WELL AS BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN IN FRANKLIN COUNTY BETWEEN 3 AND 330 PM. TUCKER
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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.