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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 14, 1996Franklin County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1996, 5:34 PM CDT for Franklin County, Missouri. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1996, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 288 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1181 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 142235
SVRSTL
MOC071-142300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
534 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 533 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR UNION. THIS STORM
WAS MOVING EAST AT .30 MPH...AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWN OF PACIFIC BY 545
PM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
TRUETT/FERRY

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 12:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

MOZ042-041-050-010-048-072-062-059-084-018-019-052-085-027-047-
051-034-049-036-035-099-061-075-074-063-064-009-026-060-073-ILZ095-
064-096-098-069-065-058-099-059-100-070-102-060-097-079-101-074-
MOZ065-142300-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1240 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996

THIS OUTLOOK AREA COVERS MOST OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN ST. LOUIS. AREAS INCLUDED ARE THE
CENTRAL...NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.  COUNTIIES
COVERED BY THIS OUTLOOK ARE ALL COUNTIES INCLUDING AND NORTH OF
GASCONADE...FRANKLIN AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY IN MISSOURI...AND MADISON
AND MONTGOMERY IN ILLINOIS.

THE CITIES COVERED BY THIS OUTLOOK AREA INCLUDE COLUMBIA...JEFFERSON
CITY...MEXICO...HANNIBAL...ST. CHARLES IN MISSOURI...AND QUINCY AND
CARLINVILLE IN ILLINOIS.
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THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT ALL OF EASTERN
MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTHWEST...THROUGH CENTRAL
...INTO SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AT MIDDAY WILL SLOWLY DRIFT EASTWARD...
MOVING INTO THE BI-STATE AREA BY MID AFTERNOON...AND INTO
SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

THE WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR FEEDING THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE...LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF
THE LATEST FORECAST FOR POSSIBLE SKYWARN ACTION.

TRUETT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone	49 min
May 14, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron	35 min
May 14, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Gasconade	44 min
May 14, 6:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Jefferson	3 hr
May 14, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford, Iron, Saint Francois, Washington	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.