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Tornado Warning 3, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 16, 1990Saint Louis County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1990, 4:56 PM CDT for Saint Louis County, Missouri. It was in force for 22 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1990, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1990, 5:18 PM CDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 232 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1990-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 12:00Z on 1990-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 291 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
279 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 162200
TORSTL
MOC189-162230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
456 PM CDT WED MAY 16 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
          ...CENTRAL ST LOUIS
 
RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR ELLISVILLE IN
CENTRAL ST LOUIS COUNTY. 1/2 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED
IN ELLISVILLE.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
FELDT

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion, Ralls25 min
May 15, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike40 min
May 15, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln54 min
May 16, 1:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln, Warren43 min
May 16, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Charles46 min
May 16, 3:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson27 min
May 16, 4:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln37 min
May 16, 4:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXLincoln, Saint Charles, Warren4 hr
May 16, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin, Warren43 min
May 16, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Charles14 min
May 16, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Louis50 min
May 16, 3:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXSaint Charles7 hr
May 16, 3:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXLincoln, Warren7 hr
May 16, 3:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXFranklin, Saint Louis7 hr
May 16, 3:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXCity of Saint Louis7 hr
May 16, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCrawford, Phelps36 min
May 16, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCity of Saint Louis51 min
May 16, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin, Jefferson, Saint Louis52 min
May 16, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCity of Saint Louis52 min
May 16, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCrawford, Washington61 min
May 16, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSainte Genevieve, Saint Francois53 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.