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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 5, 1993Perry County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1993, 2:58 PM CDT for Perry County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1993, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1993, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Perry County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 1993-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 56 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 12:00Z on 1993-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 208 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
274 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, May 5, 2:40 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
MOZ018-052045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
240 PM CDT WED MAY 5 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING OVER PERRY COUNTY MISSOURI...

AT 240 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM OCCURRING NEAR PERRYVILLE MISSOURI...WHICH IS SOME 60 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF ST LOUIS.  THE STORM HAD MOVED VERY LITTLE SINCE ITS
INITIAL DEVELOPMENT SHORTLY AFTER 215 PM THIS AFTERNOON.

THE STORM WILL BE PRODUCING SOME HAIL AND EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINS ACROSS
PERRY COUNTY BETWEEN 240 AND 315 PM AS ITS DRIFTS SOUTHEAST.  THE HEAVY
RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM COULD PRODUCE SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING
AREAS.

THE PERRYVILLE POLICE REPORTED SMALL HAIL WITH THE STORM AT
235 PM.

TRUETT
&
Special weather statement, May 5, 2:43 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
MOZ018-052045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
240 PM CDT WED MAY 5 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING OVER PERRY COUNTY MISSOURI...

AT 240 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM OCCURRING NEAR PERRYVILLE MISSOURI...WHICH IS SOME 60 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF ST LOUIS.  THE STORM HAD MOVED VERY LITTLE SINCE ITS
INITIAL DEVELOPMENT SHORTLY AFTER 215 PM THIS AFTERNOON.

THE STORM WILL BE PRODUCING SOME HAIL AND EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINS ACROSS
PERRY COUNTY BETWEEN 240 AND 315 PM AS ITS DRIFTS SOUTHEAST.  THE HEAVY
RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM COULD PRODUCE SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING
AREAS.

THE PERRYVILLE POLICE REPORTED SMALL HAIL WITH THE STORM AT
235 PM.

TRUETT
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 3:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXPerry2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.