Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1990, 4:19 PM CDT for Monroe County, Saint Clair County, Illinois. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1990, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monroe County, IL, Saint Clair 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KSTL 072120
SVRSTL
ILC083-119-133-163-072215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
419 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS
...JERSEY...MADISON...NORTHERN MONROE...ST CLAIR
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS WAS MOVING THROUGH ST LOUIS
COUNTY AND IS MOVING INTO ILLINOIS AT 420 PM CDT.
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.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, Jun 7, 11:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
MOZALL-071740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1130 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS COUNTIES OF MONROE AND ST CLAIR...AND THE EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI COUNTIES OF FRANKLIN...JEFFERSON...LINCOLN...ST CHARLES ...ST LOUIS...ST LOUIS CITY...AND WARREN... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST AND PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 1125 AM CDT INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED NEAR CLAYTON ILLINOIS... JUST EAST OF QUINCY IN EAST CENTRAL ADAMS COUNTY. ALSO...HEAVY RAIN WAS JUST SOUTHWEST OF HANNIBAL MISSOURI IN RALLS COUNTY. WATER WAS REPORTED OVER THE ROAD ON ILLINOIS HIGHWAY 24 IN ADAMS COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH AND WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. FLASH FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TODAY AS HEAVY RAIN COMBINED WITH SATURATED GROUND CONDITIONS WILL FLOOD ROADS AND PUSH STREAMS OVER THEIR BANKS. NEVER CROSS WATER COVERED ROADS. MOST OF THE DEATHS DURING THE FLOODING IN MAY WERE DUE TO PERSONS ATTEMPTING TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. IT ONLY TAKES TWO FEET OF WATER TO SWEEP A CAR OFF THE ROAD. PLEASE STAY ALERT FOR LATER STATEME+NTS AND WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DYER
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 11:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-013-071730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1140 AM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1130 AM A CLUSTER OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF SEDALIA TO ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF WARRENSBURG TO CLINTON. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST WEST OF WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...BRIEF GUSTY WIND AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF HAIL. PERSONS IN PETTIS AND SALINE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATMENTS OR PDOSSIBLE WARNINGS. LA GREE
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 12:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-013-071845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1240 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY EXPIRED AT NOON... ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1235 PM A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA NEAR GLASGOW TO 5 MILES EAST OF SEDALIA THEN CONTINUED INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. BY 1245 PM THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL STRETCH FROM MOBERLY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI TO BAGNELL DAM AND THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS. NO PRECIPITATION HAS FALLEN IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY SINCE ABOUT 1000 AM SO THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AND WILL NOT BE REISSUED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A THREAT OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 600 PM. LA GREE
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 12:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-013-071845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 1240 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY EXPIRED AT NOON... ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1235 PM A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA NEAR GLASGOW TO 5 MILES EAST OF SEDALIA THEN CONTINUED INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. BY 145 PM THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL STRETCH FROM MOBERLY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI TO BAGNELL DAM AND THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS. NO PRECIPITATION HAS FALLEN IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY SINCE ABOUT 1000 AM SO THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AND WILL NOT BE REISSUED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A THREAT OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 600 PM. LA GREE
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 1:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
MOZALL-071940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 152 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND PARTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI AND MUCH OF THE SOUTHWEST THIRD OF ILLINOIS. ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 6 PM CDT FOR MONROE AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS AND ST LOUIS CITY AND COUNTY AND ST CHARLES...LINCOLN... WARREN...FRANKLIN AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 6 PM FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF MISSOURI AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 131 PM CDT INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL NEAR TIPTON MISSOURI...30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBIA. WALNUT SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED JUST NORTH OF TIPTON. OTHER HEAVY RAIN STRETCHED FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBIA TO THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS. ALL THIS RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. THE ST LOUIS METRO AREA WILL HAVE A BREAK IN THE RAINFALL UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON...WITH HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE BY RUSH HOUR. REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. PL EASE STAY ALERT FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Effingham, Fayette | 40 min |
| Jun 7, 3:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 5 hr |
| Jun 7, 6:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Clair, Washington | 64 min |
| Jun 7, 6:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Perry, Randolph | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 8:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe | 9 hr |
| Jun 7, 8:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 9 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 41 min |
| Jun 7, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 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.