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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS St. Louis, MO

March 17, 1991Lincoln County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1991, 1:42 PM CST for Lincoln County, Missouri. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Mar 17, 1991, 1:42 PM CST (19:42 UTC)
Expired
Mar 17, 1991, 2:45 PM CST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, MO

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 17, 2:30 PM CSTHail 1Lincoln, MO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 297 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 1991-03-17Temperature 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 1991-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 201 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1176 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Mar 17, 12:22 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
MOZ010-171915-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
1220 PM CST SUN MAR 17 1991

...A NARROW BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS
CENTRAL MISSOURI...

AT 1220 PM A NARROW BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES WIDE
EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF COLUMBIA TO
JEFFERSON CITY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED PEA SIZED HAIL JUST WEST OF COLUMBIA
AT NOON...AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR.
A SHORT PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN ALSO ACCOMPANIED THESE
THUNDERSTORM AS THEY MOVED NORTHEAST.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH CALLAWAY AND AUDRAIN COUNTIES
BETWEEN 1220 AND 100 PM THIS AFTERNOON.

LA GREE
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 2:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin, Saint Charles, Saint Louis50 min
Mar 17, 4:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson25 min
Mar 17, 4:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.