Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1990, 8:09 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1990, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1990, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, MO, Pike 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 315 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
- 1169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSTL 080110
SVRSTL
MOC113-163-080200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
809 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
...NORTHERN LINCOLN...SOUTHERN PIKE
AT 800 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WITH LARGE HAIL WAS 20 MILES EAST OF MEXICO MISSOURI OR 65 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ST LOUIS...MOVING TO THE EAST 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
MOVE ACROSS CUIVRE RIVER STATE PARK.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.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
Local storm report, Jun 7, 5:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
MO010-072300- PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 500 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 TIME COUNTY REPORT 115PM CDT MONITEAU FUNNEL CLOUD ALOFT JUST NORTH OF TIPTON MO. 125PM CDT MONITEAU MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT TIPTON. 145PM CDT MONITEAU WALNUT SIZE HAIL AT CLARKSBURG. 205PM CDT MONITEAU FUNNEL CLOUD ALOFT JUST WEST OF JAMESTOWN. 210PM CDT MONITEAU 80 MPH WIND AT JAMESTOWN. 215PM CDT i COLE FUNNEL CLOUD 4 WEST OF JEFFERSON CITY AIRPORT. 215PM CDT MILLER MOTEL ROOF BLOWN OFF AT ELDON. 222PM CDT COLE BARN BLOWN DOWN AT EUGENE - SRN COLE COUNTY. L;ARM
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
MOZALL-080030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 640 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...TORNADO WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNTIL 10 PM CDT AND FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MISSOURI UNTIL MIDNIGHT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EAST MISSOURI TONIGHT... AT 630 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...25 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA NEAR THE TOWN OF FAYETTE. VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING 20 MILES NORTH OF ROLLA IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND WERE SCATTERED IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS FROM JUST EAST OF ALTON TO 25 MILES WEST OF MT VERNON. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI. RADAR NOWCAST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT IN PARTS OF BOTH MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS. HUTSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Dent, Phelps | 37 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.