Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 36, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 1995, 5:12 PM CDT for Boone County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1995, 5:12 PM CDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boone County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Columbia, MO | Ham radio spotters reported a brief touchdown. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 1059 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 082213 TORSTL MOC019-082245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 512 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...CENTRAL BOONE COUNTY AT 512 PM...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF COLUMBIA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE TOWN OF COLUMBIA SHOULD SEEK SHLETER NOW! SEEK SHELTER NOW IN A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM. YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF THOSE AROUND YOU MAY DEPEND ON YOUR ACTIONS. FG
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole, Osage | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 3:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 3:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Dent | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 43 min |
| Jul 8, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Callaway | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Cole | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Osage | 38 min |
| Jul 8, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 48 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.