Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1995, 1:47 PM CDT for Saint Louis County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1995, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1995, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saint Louis County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 901 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 261848 RRA SVRSTL MOC189-261930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 147 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...ST LOUIS COUNTY AT 145 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHERN ST LOUIS COUNTY...FROM NEAR CHESTERFIELD TO LAMBERT FIELD. THIS STORM WAS SLOWLY MOVING NORTH AND WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF HAZELWOOD AND FLORRISANT DURING THE NEXT HALF HOUR. AT 145 PM...LARGE TREES WERE BLOWN IN THE BRIDGETON AREA. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK INSIDE SHELTER NOW! SHEA/TS &
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 26, 9:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
MOZ036-035-ILZ095-098-097-261500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 900 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1995 ...HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE OVER SECTIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 855 AM...RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER PIKE COUNTY ILLINOIS...35 TO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUINCY. AS THESE STORMS MOVED NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR...NEW STORMS WERE FORMING BACK TO THE SOUTH AND MOVING ACROSS THE SAME AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE ALREADY FALLEN OVER CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY THIS MORNING. AS THE RAIN CONTINUES...FLASH FLOODING MAY DEVELOP. IF YOU LIVE IN PIKE COUNTY ILLINOIS...ESPECIALLY WEST OF PITTSFIELD...REMAIN ALERT FOR RURAL AND FLASH FLOODING. LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND DITCHES MAY BECOME FULL AND FLOOD SECONDARY ROADS. USE EXTRA CAUTION WHILE DRIVING AND NEVER DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS. SHEA
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:01 AM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
MOZ036-035-ILZ095-098-097-261500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 900 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1995 ...HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE OVER SECTIONS OF WESTERN ILLINOIS... AT 855 AM...RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER PIKE COUNTY ILLINOIS...35 TO 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUINCY. AS THESE STORMS MOVED NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR...NEW STORMS WERE FORMING BACK TO THE SOUTH AND MOVING ACROSS THE SAME AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE ALREADY FALLEN OVER CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY THIS MORNING. AS THE RAIN CONTINUES...FLASH FLOODING MAY DEVELOP. IF YOU LIVE IN PIKE COUNTY ILLINOIS...ESPECIALLY WEST OF PITTSFIELD...REMAIN ALERT FOR RURAL AND FLASH FLOODING. LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND DITCHES MAY BECOME FULL AND FLOOD SECONDARY ROADS. USE EXTRA CAUTION WHILE DRIVING AND NEVER DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADWAYS. SHEA
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 1:35 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
MOZ061-063-064-ILZ098-099-100-101-261930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 135 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE METRO AREA... AT 130 PM...RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ST LOUIS AREA. ONE STORM WAS IN THE CHESTERFIELD AREA WITH OTHERS NEAR DOWNTOWN AND INTO METRO EAST. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTH WITH MORE FORMING ACROSS ST LOUIS COUNTY. VERY HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO REDUCE YOUR SPEED IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO FORM THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. SHEA
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.