Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS St. Louis, MO

April 25, 1993Washington County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1993, 12:45 AM CDT for Washington County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 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
Apr 25, 1993, 12:45 AM CDT (05:45 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 1993, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, MO

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 25, 12:55 AM CDTTornado F1Potosi, MOA small tornado initially touched down near the intersection of Highway P and State Road 8, damaging a door and windows of a large garage. The tornado then traveled across a city park damaging several trees, sections of a chain-linked fence, and several adver

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 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 216 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 1993-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 158 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Paducah/Barkley, KY at 00:00Z on 1993-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 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
158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
268 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln26 min
Apr 24, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin, Saint Charles, Warren38 min
Apr 24, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Louis37 min
Apr 24, 10:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Charles53 min
Apr 25, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCrawford35 min
Apr 25, 12:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXDent, Reynolds52 min
Apr 25, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Francois, Washington49 min
Apr 25, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSainte Genevieve46 min
Apr 25, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson33 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.