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Tornado Warning 5, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 13, 1995Clark County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1995, 3:23 PM CDT for Clark County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1995, 4:09 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Clark County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 346 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
430 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 132023
TORSTL
MOC045-132115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
323 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...CLARK COUNTY
 
AT 320 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO OVER WESTERN CLARK
COUNTY.
 
A TORNADO WAS ALSO REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENTT OVER FAR EASTERN
SCOTTLAND COUNTY 7 TO 8 MILES EAST OF MEMPHIS
 
THE TOWNS OF LURAY...AND ASHTON ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.
 
SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY AND SEEK SHELTER
NOW!
 
RP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPhelps53 min
May 13, 10:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXClark42 min
May 13, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXScotland54 min
May 13, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXClark46 min
May 13, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLewis17 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.