Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 12:31 AM CDT for Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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 27, 1996, 12:31 AM CDT (05:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moniteau County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:30 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1746 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 270534 SVRSTL MOC135-270615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1231 AM CDT MON MAY 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...MONITEAU COUNTY AT 1230 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR TIPTON MISSOURI IN MONITEAU COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG AND GUSTY DAMANGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL AS IT MOVES QUICKLY TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS MONITEAU COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS OF HIGH POINT AND CALIFORNIA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 64 min |
| May 27, 12:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Boone | 52 min |
| May 27, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Monroe | 46 min |
| May 27, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 30 min |
| May 27, 1:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Callaway | 34 min |
| May 27, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Ralls | 29 min |
| May 27, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 32 min |
| May 27, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 53 min |
| May 27, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 46 min |
| May 27, 4:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 51 min |
| May 27, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 45 min |
| May 27, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 43 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.