Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1996, 7:50 PM CDT for Iron County, Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 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, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Iron County, MO, Reynolds County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 511 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 617 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 150052 SVRSTL MOC093-179-150130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 750 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN IRON COUNTY...EASTERN REYNOLDS COUNTY AT 750 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CENTERVILLE...NEAR JOHNSONS SHUT-IN STATE PARK. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING GLOVER AND ANNAPOLIS BETWEEN 8 AND 815 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, 7:40 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
MOZ009-010-018-019-026-027-034>036-041-042-047>050-150230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 736 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #368 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST MISSOURI... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 368 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SCOTLAND...CLARK...KNOX...LEWIS...SHELBY...MARION...MONROE... RALLS...PIKE...AUDRAIN...BOONE...CALLAWAY...MONITEAU...COLE ...AND OSAGE COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS LESSENED FOR THE TIME BEING. THERE IS HOWEVER STILL A POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LATE TONIGHT. KEEP ABREAST OF LOCAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. PEDIGO
Special weather statement, May 14, 7:42 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
MOZ009-010-018-019-026-027-034>036-041-042-047>050-150230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 736 PM CDT TUE MAY 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #368 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST MISSOURI... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 368 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SCOTLAND...CLARK...KNOX...LEWIS...SHELBY...MARION...MONROE... RALLS...PIKE...AUDRAIN...BOONE...CALLAWAY...MONITEAU...COLE ...AND OSAGE COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS LESSENED FOR THE TIME BEING. THERE IS HOWEVER STILL A POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LATE TONIGHT. KEEP ABREAST OF LOCAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. PEDIGO
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin | 59 min |
| May 14, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 59 min |
| May 14, 7:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson | 31 min |
| May 14, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson | 31 min |
| May 14, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 39 min |
| May 14, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 4 hr |
| May 14, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Sainte Genevieve | 3 hr |
| May 14, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996Every 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.