Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 1995, 9:34 AM CDT for Franklin County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 1995, 9:34 AM CDT (14:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 1995, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 031439 RRA SVRSTL MOC071-031515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 934 AM CDT SUN SEP 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 936 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS NEAR UNION. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN UNION WITH THIS STORM. THE TOWNS OF UNION...ST. CLAIR AND PARKWAY ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING HAIL. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AMS &
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, Sep 3, 6:47 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
ILZ095>097-KSZ102>105-MOZ001>051-054>059-069>071-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 647 AM CDT SUN SEP 3 1995 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS PARTS OF NORTHEAST...CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI INCLUDING THE LARGER CITIES OF COLUMBIA...JEFFERSON CITY AND ST.LOUIS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A HANNIBAL...STEELVILLE...HARRISONVILLE LINE. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS IN CASE SPOTTER ACTIVIATION IS NEEDED. BECHTOLD
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 6:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
ILZ095>097-KSZ102>105-MOZ001>051-054>059-069>071-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 647 AM CDT SUN SEP 3 1995 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS PARTS OF NORTHEAST...CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI INCLUDING THE LARGER CITIES OF COLUMBIA...JEFFERSON CITY AND ST.LOUIS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A HANNIBAL...STEELVILLE...HARRISONVILLE LINE. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS IN CASE SPOTTER ACTIVIATION IS NEEDED. BECHTOLD
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 9:14 AM CDT, 20 minutes before
MOZ060-062-031445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 914 AM CDT SUN SEP 3 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CROSSING THE MISSOURI RIVER... AT 905 AM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL...IN SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF ST LOUIS. THIS STORM...AND OTHER SHOWERS IN THE AREA WERE MOVING SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS JUST WEST OF MARTHASVILLE IN SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY AND INTO NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...JUST WEST OF WASHINGTON BY 1000 AM. RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME SMALL HAIL. REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THESE STORMS PUSH THROUGH LATER THIS MORNING. SHEA
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Osage | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 37 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.