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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 24, 1993Clark County, Lewis County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1993, 5:34 PM CDT for Clark County, Lewis County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 1993, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1993, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clark County, MO, Lewis County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 363 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1579 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 318 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 328 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, Jun 24, 2:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:05 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

MOZ002-005-008-242300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
505 PM CDT THU JUN 24 1993

SECTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND WESTERN MISSOURI HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 494.  THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT
IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

PLATTE           CLAY             JACKSON           CASS
CALDWELL         LIVINGSTON       RAY               CARROLL
HARRISON         MERCER           PUTNAM            DAVIESS
GRUNDY           SULLIVAN

IN ADDITION...THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE KANSAS CITY
METRO AREA...AS WELL AS FOR THE CITIES OF CHILICOTHE AND TRENTON.

HOWEVER...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF
NORTHEAST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KIRKSVILLE...MACON
...SEDALIA...AND NEVADA AREAS...UNTIL 9 PM.

TRUETT

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:08 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

MOZ002-005-008-242300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
505 PM CDT THU JUN 24 1993

SECTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND WESTERN MISSOURI HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 494.  THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT
IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

PLATTE           CLAY             JACKSON           CASS
CALDWELL         LIVINGSTON       RAY               CARROLL
HARRISON         MERCER           PUTNAM            DAVIESS
GRUNDY           SULLIVAN

IN ADDITION...THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE KANSAS CITY
METRO AREA...AS WELL AS FOR THE CITIES OF CHILICOTHE AND TRENTON.

HOWEVER...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF
NORTHEAST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...INCLUDING THE KIRKSVILLE...MACON
...SEDALIA...AND NEVADA AREAS...UNTIL 9 PM.

TRUETT

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:20 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

MOZ003-007-242315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
520 PM CDT THU JUN 24 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST MISSOURI...

AT 515 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST MISSOURI.  ONE STORM WAS NEAR NEAR LA BELLE
OR 35 MILES EAST OF KIRKSVILLE.  ANOTHER STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KAHOKIA.
OR 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIRKSVILLE.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS WHICH WILL CAUSE PONDING OF
WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.  HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE
FROM THESE STORMS.   THE STORMS WILL BE PASSING THROUGH OR NEAR THE
TOWNS OF REVERE...WILLIAMSTOWN AND FENWAY BY 615 PM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY.  ALSO...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS
OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 9 PM.

FERRY/TUCKER

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:24 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

MOZ003-007-242315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
520 PM CDT THU JUN 24 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST MISSOURI...

AT 515 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST MISSOURI.  ONE STORM WAS NEAR NEAR LA BELLE
OR 35 MILES EAST OF KIRKSVILLE.  ANOTHER STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KAHOKIA.
OR 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF KIRKSVILLE.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS WHICH WILL CAUSE PONDING OF
WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.  HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE
FROM THESE STORMS.   THE STORMS WILL BE PASSING THROUGH OR NEAR THE
TOWNS OF REVERE...WILLIAMSTOWN AND FENWAY BY 615 PM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY.  ALSO...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS
OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 9 PM.

FERRY/TUCKER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lewis	27 min

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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.