Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS St. Louis, MO

Issued

Jul 16, 1992, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)

Expired

Jul 16, 1992, 3:15 PM CDT

In force

43 min

Issued by

NWS St. Louis, MO

Area

Whole counties

Counties Monroe County, IL, Randolph County, IL

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.

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TTAA00 KSTL 161932
SVRSTL
ILC133-157-162015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
232 PM CDT THU JUL 16 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY
 
...AT 230 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT
45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST LOUIS...NEAR PRARIE DU ROCHER. THE STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NORTHWEST OF SPARTA.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.   DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
TUCKER

In the hours before

MOZ018-ILZ013-161945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
149 PM CDT THU JUL 16 1992

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED IN STE GENEVIEVE COUNTY...

AT 145 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT A STORM HAD DEVELOPED
RAPIDLY JUST SOUTH OF FRENCH VILLAGE OR ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTH OF ST
LOUIS.  THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH NORTHERN
STE GENEVIEVE AND INTO SOUTHERN MONROE AND EXTREME NORTHERN RANDOLPH
COUNTY BETWEEN 150 AND 230 PM.  THE STORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...GUSTY WIND...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
BLOOMSDALE...STE GENEVIEVE...KIDD AND PRARIE DU ROCHER ARE IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM.

TUCKER

MOZ006-009-010-013-014-162000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
215 PM CDT THU JUL 16 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE REDEVELOPING OVER WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...

AT 215 PM...HEAVY SHOWERS AND IOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A
NARROW LINE THAT EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES SOUTH OF KIRKSVILLE...TO 15
NORTH OF SEDALIA.  THE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY
THAT BISECTED THE STATE FROM NEAR THE QUINCY/HANNIBAL AREA TO JOPLIN
MISSOURI.  AN ISOLATED STORM NEAR MARSHALL DROPPED .30 INCHES IN LESS
THAN A HALF HOUR.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD ALONG THIS SLOW MOVING
COOL FRONT THIS AFTERNOON...MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE
BY LATE AFTERNOON.  LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL PERSIST OVER MOST OF
THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE REGION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON
AND EARLY EVENING.
PERLOW

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.