Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 2:50 PM CDT for Gasconade County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 2:50 PM CDT (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1995, 3:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gasconade County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 686 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 161952 SVRSTL MOC073-162030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 250 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHERN GASCONADE COUNTY AT 246 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES WEST OF JEFFERSON CITY NEAR MORRISON. SOME OF THE COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE MORRISON...GASCONADE...FREDRICKSBURG...SWISS...AND HERMANN. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING MARBLE SIZE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DM/DF
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Moniteau | 55 min |
| Apr 16, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Osage | 39 min |
| Apr 16, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 53 min |
| Apr 16, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Francois | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 39 min |
| Apr 16, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 21 min |
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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.