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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS St. Louis, MO

March 27, 1991Lewis County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1991, 3:52 AM CST for Lewis County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 27, 1991, 3:52 AM CST (09:52 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 1991, 4:48 AM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Lewis County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 357 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1991-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 37 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1991-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 413 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
37 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
413 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
384 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 3:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAdair, Knox62 min
Mar 27, 3:52 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXClark68 min
Mar 27, 6:49 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln, Saint Charles41 min

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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.