Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 38, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 1995, 5:55 PM CDT for Osage County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1995, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1995, 6:33 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 243 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 082256 TORSTL MOC151-082345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 555 PM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...OSAGE COUNTY AT 553 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM NEAR FULTON TO 15 MILES EAST AND 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON CITY WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTH OF LINN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF BONNOTS MILL AND LINN SHOULD SEEKS SHELTER NOW! THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK INSIDE SHELTER NOW! REMEMBFER...A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK INSIDE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Boone | 33 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, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 48 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.