Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 12:41 AM CDT for Boone County, Missouri. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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 27, 1996, 12:41 AM CDT (05:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boone County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 1:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 | Columbia, MO | |
| May 27, 1:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 58 | Columbia, 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 267 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 270542 SVRSTL MOC019-270645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1241 AM CDT MON MAY 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...BOONE COUNTY AT 1245 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF BOONE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG AND GUSTY DAMANGING WINDS. THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH HARRISBBURG...MIDWAY...COLUMBIA AND CENTRALIA. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK INSIDE SHELTER NOW!
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 44 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
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.