Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT for Perry County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 1776 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 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 192203 RRA SVRSTL MOC157-192245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 500 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI ...SOUTHEASTERN PERRY COUNTY AT 500 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING SOUTHEAST PERRY COUNTY MISSOURI FROM WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY ILLINOIS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH AND WILL PASS THROUGH THE TOWNS OF WITTENBERG AND ALTENBURG BETWEEN 510 AND 525 PM CDT. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS.D SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OFTEN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PRZYBYLINSKI
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 19, 11:25 AM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
ILZ098>102-MOZ039>115-192100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1125 AM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995 ...THE HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF MISSOURI FOR TODAY... SOME LARGER CITIES INCLUDED IN THE ADVISORY ARE COLUMBIA...JOPLIN SPRINGFIELD...JEFFERSON CITY...ST LOUIS...COLUMBIA...ROLLA... CAPE GIRARDEAU. HIGH PRESSURE IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BRING ONE MORE DAY OF HOT AND HUMID WEATHER TO THE SOUTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF MISSOURI. THIS AFTERNOON HIGHS WILL RANGE FROM THE MIDDLE 90S TO AROUND 100 DEGREES...WHICH COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL PUSH HEAT INDICES TO DANGEROUS LEVELS. HEAT INDICES WILL CLIMB INTO THE 105 TO 115 DEGREE RANGE LATER THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON. PEOPLE ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION AND COMMON-SENSE DURING THIS TIME OF EXCESSIVE HEAT AND HUMIDITY. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...BE CAUTIOUS WHEN WORKING. TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS IN THE SHADE OR AN AIR-CONDITIONED BUILDING...AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER TO REPLENISH LOST FLUIDS. TO HEIGHTEN THE AWARENESS OF THIS DANGEROUS SITUATION...PEOPLE ARE URGED TO FREQUENTLY CHECK ON THE ELDERLY. PARTICULARILY IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND OR RELATIVE THAT LIVES IN AN UN-AIR CONDITIONED ROOM. ALSO PROVIDE PETS WITH A COOL SHELTER AND PLENTY OF WATER. PRZYBYLINSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 11:36 AM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
ILZ098>102-MOZ039>115-192100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1125 AM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995 ...THE HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF MISSOURI FOR TODAY... SOME LARGER CITIES INCLUDED IN THE ADVISORY ARE COLUMBIA...JOPLIN SPRINGFIELD...JEFFERSON CITY...ST LOUIS...COLUMBIA...ROLLA... CAPE GIRARDEAU. HIGH PRESSURE IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BRING ONE MORE DAY OF HOT AND HUMID WEATHER TO THE SOUTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF MISSOURI. THIS AFTERNOON HIGHS WILL RANGE FROM THE MIDDLE 90S TO AROUND 100 DEGREES...WHICH COMBINED WITH HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL PUSH HEAT INDICES TO DANGEROUS LEVELS. HEAT INDICES WILL CLIMB INTO THE 105 TO 115 DEGREE RANGE LATER THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON. PEOPLE ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION AND COMMON-SENSE DURING THIS TIME OF EXCESSIVE HEAT AND HUMIDITY. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS...BE CAUTIOUS WHEN WORKING. TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS IN THE SHADE OR AN AIR-CONDITIONED BUILDING...AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER TO REPLENISH LOST FLUIDS. TO HEIGHTEN THE AWARENESS OF THIS DANGEROUS SITUATION...PEOPLE ARE URGED TO FREQUENTLY CHECK ON THE ELDERLY. PARTICULARILY IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND OR RELATIVE THAT LIVES IN AN UN-AIR CONDITIONED ROOM. ALSO PROVIDE PETS WITH A COOL SHELTER AND PLENTY OF WATER. PRZYBYLINSKI
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.