Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1996, 6:16 PM CDT for Franklin County, Gasconade County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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
- May 14, 1996, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:08 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Union, MO |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 416 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 142316 SVRSTL MOC073-071-150000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 616 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN GASCONADE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 615 PM...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM OWENSVILLE TO SULLIVAN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING SULLIVAN...MERAMEC STATE PARK...AND ST CLAIR. 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, 5 hours 33 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. < .................................................................. 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, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 26 min |
| May 14, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron | 35 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
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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.