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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS St. Louis, MO

April 16, 1995Gasconade County, Missouri

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 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 (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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-04-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 686 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 202 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 16, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBoone, Moniteau55 min
Apr 16, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCallaway, Osage39 min
Apr 16, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXWashington45 min
Apr 16, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin53 min
Apr 16, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson47 min
Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Francois31 min
Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSainte Genevieve45 min
Apr 16, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson39 min
Apr 16, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSainte Genevieve30 min
Apr 16, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXJefferson21 min

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.