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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 7, 1995Reynolds County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1995, 5:48 PM CDT for Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1995, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Reynolds County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 256 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1144 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 183 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
1144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1364 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 072251
SVRSTL
MOC179-072315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
548 PM CDT FRI JUL 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...SOUTHERN REYNOLDS COUNTY
 
AT 545 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELLINGTON MISSOURI AND JUST WEST OF
CLEARWATER LAKE. INDICATIONS ARE THAT LARGE HAIL IS CONTAINED IN THIS
STORM.
 
THE STORM WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITIES OF
GARWOOD AND HADLEY WILL BE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
PEDIGO

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, Jul 7, 2:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
MOZ001>115-KSZ102>105-072300-

MISSOURI SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
215 PM CDT FRI JUL 7 1995

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF
NORTHERN MISSOURI TONIGHT.  THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS ROUGHLY ALONG
AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM ST JOSEPH TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF SPICKARD TO
30 MILES SOUTH OF KIRKSVILLE.

STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF
THE LATEST FORECASTS FOR POSSIBLE SKYWARN ACTION LATER TONIGHT.

GLASS

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.