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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS St. Louis, MO

September 3, 1995Franklin County, Missouri

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.

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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1995-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1995-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
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

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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
 
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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 3, 6:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGasconade, Osage50 min
Sep 3, 6:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCallaway37 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.