Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS St. Louis, MO
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 3:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Perry | 2 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.