Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 4:37 AM CDT for Lewis County, Marion County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 4:37 AM CDT (09:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lewis County, MO, Marion County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 2481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 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 160940 SVRSTL MOC111-127-161030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 437 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...LEWIS COUNTY...MARION COUNTY AT 435 AM CDT NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONTICELLO TO JUST EAST OF PHILADELPHIA MISSOURI...OR 15 MILES WEST OF HANNIBAL. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE MONTICELLO...EWING...PHILADELPHIA...AND PALMYRA. THI S STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK INSIDE SHELTER NOW! 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, May 16, 3:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
MOZALL-160900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 304 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN THE METRO AREA... A NORTH-SOUTH LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY AND IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. AT 300 AM THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF ALTON ILLINOIS... IN FLORISSANT AND ADJACENT NORTH COUNTY COMMUNITIES NEAR I-270... AND JUST SOUTH OF ARNOLD EASTWARD TO NEAR WATERLOO ILLINOIS. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT HAZELWOOD. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE OFF TO THE EAST...THEN AS RUSH HOUR BEGINS...ANOTHER MORE GENERAL AREA OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE IN...PROBABLY LASTING THROUGH THE MORNING RUSH HOUR. PEDIGO
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:05 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
MOZ055-056-068-069-161005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 403 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BENTON AND MORGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 8AM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CAMDEN AND HICKORY COUNTIES UNTIL 9AM... AT 4AM A 35 MILE WIDE BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES WEST OF COLUMBIA...THROUGH SEDALIA...TO 65 MILES SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY NEAR OSCEOLA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 40 MILES PER HOUR. THIS BAND OF STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO HICKORY AND BENTON COUNTIES BEFORE 415AM...AND HICKORY...MILLER...AND CAMDEN COUNTIES BETWEEN 430AM AND 445AM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. REAUGH
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles | 59 min |
| May 16, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 51 min |
| May 16, 5:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Callaway, Lincoln, Montgomery, Warren | 6 hr |
| May 16, 5:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 6 hr |
| May 16, 8:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 26 min |
| May 16, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Perry | 46 min |
| May 16, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Shelby | 63 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.