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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS St. Louis, MO

August 3, 1991Randolph County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1991, 5:06 PM CDT for Randolph County, Illinois. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1991, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1991, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Randolph County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 1991-08-03Temperature 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 1991-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -52 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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, Aug 3, 1:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
MOZ011-012-032300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
135 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 1991

...HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST-CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS
   AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A HEAT ADVISORY FOR EAST
CENTRAL MISSOURI INCLUDING THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREA FOR THIS
AFTERNOON.  DAYTIME HIGHS ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 100 DEGREES.  THE
COMBINATION OF THIS INTENSE HEAT AND HIGH HUMIDITY WILL RESUL,T IN HEAT
INDICES IN THE 105 TO 110 DEGREE RANGE.

PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION IF YOU ENGAGE IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES.  DRINK
PLENTY OF FLUIDS AND TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS IN THE SHADE OR AIR
CONDITIONED PLACES IF POSSIBLE.

SMALL
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 3:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
MOZ011-012-017-018-032130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
325 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 1991

AT 320 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER PARTS
OF SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI.

THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF ROLLA
MISSOURI TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BELLEVILLE ILLINOIS.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH OF
ROLLA...AND BETWEEN 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. LOUIS TO 40 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS.

AT 310 PM CDT...A SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTER IN WATERLOO ILLINOIS...ABOUT
15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST. LOUIS REPORTED WINDS GUSTING TO NEAR 50 MILES
AN HOUR IN A THUNDERSTORM.

BRIEF GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...HAIL...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY MANY OF THESE STORMS.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
PRZYBYLINSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 4:51 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSainte Genevieve42 min
Aug 3, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson, Washington44 min
Aug 3, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMonroe, Saint Clair52 min
Aug 3, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXRandolph51 min
Aug 3, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson, Perry50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.