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Tornado Warning 35, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 4, 1995Lewis County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1995, 8:36 PM CDT for Lewis County, Missouri. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 1995, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1995, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Lewis County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 403 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 186 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
230 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 050139
TORSTL
MOC045-111-050230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
836 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...EASTERN CLARK COUNTY...NORTHERN LEWIS COUNTY
 
AT 835 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
TORNADO OVER NORTH CENTRAL LEWIS COUNTY...JUST NORTH OF MONTICELLO.
 
THE STORM WAS STILL PUSHING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.  THE TOWNS OF
ST PATRICK...WAYLAND...AND ALEXANDRIA ARE IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS
STORM.
 
PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL AT ONCE!!!!
 
TRUETT/GLASS

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXShelby33 min
Jul 4, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXLewis47 min
Jul 4, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXKnox28 min
Jul 4, 8:36 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXClark45 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes 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.