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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 23, 1996Pike County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1996, 6:45 AM CDT for Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 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 23, 1996, 6:45 AM CDT (11:45 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1996, 7:30 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Pike County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:29 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 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 237 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1996-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1996-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 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 231147
SVRSTL
MOC163-231230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
645 AM CDT THU MAY 23 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 645 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS DETECTING A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN MOVING TO THE
EAST AT 30 MPH. IT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS OF NEW HARTFORD...EOLIA
BY 650 TO 7 AM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
GKS/RP

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 23, 5:56 AM CDT, 49 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019-026-
027-034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-241200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
550 AM CDT THU MAY 23 1996

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR TODAY FOR
NORTHERN MISSOURI AND ADJACENT COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS. THIS INCLUDES THE
AREA WEST AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM LOUISIANA MISSOURI TO JEFFERSON
CITY MISSOURI. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS OUTLOOK ARE QUINCY...
HANNIBAL...KIRKSVILLE...COLUMBIA...FULTON...MACON...AND MEXICO.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR TODAY FOR EAST
CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS. THIS INCLUDES THE AREA WEST AND
NORTH OF A STE GENEVIEVE TO ELLINGTON LINE. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE
ST LOUIS...FARMINGTON...TROY...WARRENTON...HERMAN...SULLIVAN...AND
CUBA MISSOURI.

STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH
NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS THIS MORNING.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE
EVENING OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND MOVE EAST SOUTHEASTWARD INTO
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

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

WDB/GKS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 7:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln37 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.