Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 11:19 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 11:19 PM CDT (04:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 2048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 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 170420 SVRSTL MOC113-219-170515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1119 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...LINCOLN COUNTY...NORTHERN WARREN COUNTY AT 1115 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF MONTGOMERY CITY MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THE TOWNS OF HAWK POINT...WARRENTON AND WRIGHT CITY ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING NICKLE SIZE HAIL AND WIND OF 40 TO 50 MPH. 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/RP
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, Apr 16, 6:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
MOZ051-052-059-061>065-071>075-102-ILZ098>101-170025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 622 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #197 FOR EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 615 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THUS...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR MORE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS EASTERN MISSOURI LATER ON TONIGHT. SOME STORM COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. METZE
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 6:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
MOZ042-041-050-048-047-049-170045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 641 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN CENTRAL MISSOURI LATER TONIGHT... AT 640 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED FROM EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH...AND MAY MOVE INTO PARTS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI LATER THIS EVENING. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALREADY IN EFFECT FOR MONTEAU COUNTY AND AREAS WEST...WHILE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS POSTED AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A COLUMBIA...MACON LINE. BOTH OF THESE WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD CONTINUE TO KEEP TRACK OF WEAT RDEVELOPMENTS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. TRUETT
Local storm report, Apr 16, 7:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
720 PM CST SUN APRIL 16 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
258 PM HERMANN MO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
GASCONADE COUNTY
315 PM RICHWOODS MO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
WASHINGTON COUNTY DENTING CARS
319 PM RICHWOODS MO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
WASHINGTON COUNTY COVERING THE GROUND
325 PM GERALD-NEW HAVEN MO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
FRANKLIN COUNTY
350 PM UNION MO TREE LIMBS DOWN
FRANKLIN COUNTY
408 PM HIGHWAY 67 & JJ MO WALL CLOUD REPORTED BY
S. JEFFERSON COUNTY SPOTTER
449 PM HIGHWAY 67 & 21 MO FUNNEL CLOUD
S. JEFFERSON COUNTY
455 PM HIGHWAY JJ MO DIME SIZE HAIL
S. JEFFERSON COUNTY
457 PM WOODED AREA CLOSE TO MO SPOTTER REPORT TORNADO
ST. FRANCOIS/JEFFERSON
COUNTY LINE
MET|ZESpecial weather statement, Apr 16, 8:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
MOZ010-019-170230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 825 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 825 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN LEWIS AND INTO SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTIES. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI IN THE CITIES OF MONTICELLO...SAINT PATRICK AND ALEXANDRIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THEv POSSIBILITY OF HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 9:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
MOZ041-047-170305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 900 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS EVENING... AT 850 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADARS SHOWED TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA NEAR PILOT GROVE AND LONGWOOD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST 25 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE COUNTIES OF MONITEAU AND BOONE AROUND 930 PM. SMALL HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. METZE
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 11:08 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
MOZALL-170515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1107 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI HAS EXPIRED...AND WILL NOT BE EXTENDED. THE LATEST MAPS INDICATE THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO THREATEN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE NIGHT...AND SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...AND SOME HAIL. HOWEVER...THE THREAXT OF WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED CONSIDERABLY. NOTICE TO BROADCASTERS...ZONE FORECASTS FOR NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI WILL BE UPDATED SHORTLY TO REFLECT THE EXPIRATION OF THE WATCH. TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway | 66 min |
| Apr 16, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 54 min |
| Apr 16, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 49 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.