Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1995, 5:58 PM CDT for Cole County, Osage County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1995, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1995, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cole County, MO, Osage County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 2558 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 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 072301 RRA SVRSTL MOC051-151-072345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 558 PM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHEASTERN COLE COUNTY...WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY AT 558 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF JEFFERSON CITY IN SOUTHERN COLE COUNTY...NEAR BRAZITO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF THOMAS AND META BY 630 PM. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM APPEARS TO BE STRONG WIND GUSTS WITH THE VERY HEAVY RAIN. HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SHEA\VA
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, Aug 7, 5:55 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
MOZ048>050-072330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 555 PM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN COLE COUNTY... AT 550 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN PARTS OF COLE COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWNS OF BRAZITO...HICKORY HILL AND ST THOMAS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST TO SOUTHEAST AND WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN COLE COUNTY AND MUCH OF OSAGE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS APPEARS TO BE HEAVY RAIN...BUT GUSTY WIND CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. OVER AN INCH OF RAIN MAY FALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME PRODUCING STREET FLOODING. SMALLER CREEKS AND STREAMS MAY RISE QUICKLY. AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE OSAGE BEND...BABBTOWN AND FREEBURG AREAS THIS EVENING...STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MOTORISTS SHOULD WATCH FOR HIGH WATER...ESPECIALLY IN LOW WATER CROSSINGS. SHEA
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:57 PM CDT, 1 minute before
MOZ048>050-072330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 555 PM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN COLE COUNTY... AT 550 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN PARTS OF COLE COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWNS OF BRAZITO...HICKORY HILL AND ST THOMAS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST TO SOUTHEAST AND WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN COLE COUNTY AND MUCH OF OSAGE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS APPEARS TO BE HEAVY RAIN...BUT GUSTY WIND CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. OVER AN INCH OF RAIN MAY FALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME PRODUCING STREET FLOODING. SMALLER CREEKS AND STREAMS MAY RISE QUICKLY. AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE OSAGE BEND...BABBTOWN AND FREEBURG AREAS THIS EVENING...STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MOTORISTS SHOULD WATCH FOR HIGH WATER...ESPECIALLY IN LOW WATER CROSSINGS. SHEA
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.