Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 23, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 7:39 PM CDT for Dent County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dent County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 1342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 280041 TORSTL MOC065-280115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 739 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...DENT COUNTY AT 738 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SOUTHWEST DENT COUNTY NEAR MONTAUK STATE PARK...AND A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THIS AREA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE TOWNS OF JADWIN...DARIEN...SALEM...AND STONE HILL. AUTOMOBILES AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED. GO TO A STURDY BUILDING OR LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Washington | 41 min |
| May 27, 8:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Camden, Miller, Pulaski | 62 min |
| May 27, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Warren | 45 min |
| May 27, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin, Gasconade, Phelps, Saint Charles, Warren | 4 hr |
| May 27, 10:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Camden, Miller | 116 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.