Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 11:53 PM CDT for Pike County, Ralls County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1995, 11:53 PM CDT (04:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1995, 12:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:54 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 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 090508 RRA SVRSTL MOC163-173-090600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1153 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...RALLS COUNTY AT 1201 AM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW LONDON MISSOURI...ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF HANNIBAL. GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL PASS THROUGH THE COMMUNITIES OF LOUISIANA MISSOURI BETWEEN 1215 AND 1230 AM. PERSONS IN BOWLING GREEN MAY ALSO BE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE^ LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. PEDIGO &
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 8, 10:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
MOZ026-034-042-050-090600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1045 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 1045 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST MISSOURI. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS SHELBY...MONROE...AUDRAIN AND CALLAWAY COUNTIES. PERSONS IN LEONARD...CLARENCE...SHELBINA...WOODLAWN... MADISON...PARIS...CENTRALIA AND MEXICO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLILITY OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL BETWEEN 1045 PM AND MIDNIGHT.
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 10:53 PM CDT, 1 hour before
MOZ026-034-042-050-090600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1045 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 1045 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST MISSOURI. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS SHELBY...MONROE...AUDRAIN AND CALLAWAY COUNTIES. PERSONS IN LEONARD...CLARENCE...SHELBINA...WOODLAWN... MADISON...PARIS...CENTRALIA AND MEXICO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLILITY OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL BETWEEN 1045 PM AND MIDNIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 3:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Ralls | 34 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.