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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 19, 1992Pike County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1992, 1:34 AM CDT for Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 1992, 1:34 AM CDT (06:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1992, 2:21 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 332 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 00:00Z on 1992-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 779 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, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 00:00Z on 1992-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 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
779 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 190636
SVRSTL
MOC163-190730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
134 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 134 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN PIKE COUNTY MISSOURI...25 MILES
SOUTH OF HANNIBAL OR JUST SOUTHWEST OF CURRYVILLE.  THE STORM WAS
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS CURRYVILLE AND BOWLING GREEN BY
230 AM CDT.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DOdN'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
DLF/MM

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, Jul 19, 12:16 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
MOZ006-010-190600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO
1215 AM CDT SUN JUL 19 1992

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED NORTH OF COLUMBIA...

AT 1215 AM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...CARRYING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...
HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WAS LOCATED NEAR THE
COMMUNITY OF CLARK...20 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF COLUMBIA.  THE
STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THE STORM WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE COMMUNRITY OF CENTRALIA BY 1230
AND WILL REACH THE TOWN OF MEXICO BEFORE 2 AM.

RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR CHANGING
CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS
OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

PERLOW

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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.