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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 26, 1996Franklin County, Jefferson County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 2:15 PM CDT for Franklin County, Jefferson 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 26, 1996, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1996, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, MO, Jefferson County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 277 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-26Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCity of Saint Louis66 min
May 25, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGreene, Jersey, Macoupin60 min
May 25, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMontgomery67 min
May 25, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXClinton65 min
May 25, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMacoupin, Montgomery45 min
May 25, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBond44 min
May 25, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion60 min
May 25, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFayette50 min
May 25, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMarion45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.