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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 23, 1996Lincoln County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1996, 7:08 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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 23, 1996, 7:08 AM CDT (12:08 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 1996, 7:45 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 23, 7:25 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Troy, 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 1790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 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 231208
SVRSTL
MOC113-231245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
708 AM CDT THU MAY 23 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 705 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS DETECTING SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM SILEX TO HAWK POINT. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
EAST AT 30 MPH. THEY WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS OF TROY AND ELSBERRY
BETWEEN 715 AND 730 AM.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK INSIDE SHELTER
NOW!
 
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, 1 hour 12 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 6:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.