Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 6:17 PM CDT for Knox County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 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, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Knox County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 203 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 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 272319 SVRSTL MOC103-280000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 617 PM CDT MON MAY 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...KNOX COUNTY AT 616 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR NOVELTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE TOWNS OF NOVELTY...EDINA...AND KNOX CITY. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF OUTDOORS...SEEK INSIDE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IN ADDITION...THE HEAVY RAINS WITH THIS STORM MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. 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, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 45 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.