Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT for Crawford 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 27, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 272248 SVRSTL MOC055-272330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 545 PM CDT MON MAY 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY AT 545 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF STEELVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF STEELVILLE...CUBA...AND BOURBON SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK |INSIDE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TRUETT/GKS
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, 12:41 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, 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.