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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS St. Louis, MO

March 24, 1996Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1996, 8:49 PM CST for Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 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
Mar 24, 1996, 8:49 PM CST (02:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1996, 9:30 PM CST
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Sainte Genevieve County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 286 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KSTL 250251 RRA
SVRSTL
MOC186-250330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
849 PM CST SUN MAR 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...ST. GENEVIEVE COUNTY
 
AT 845 PM CST NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SMALL LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING WESTERN STE GENEVIEVE COUNTY.
 
THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COMMUNITIES OF
BLOOMSDALE...WEINGARTEN..AND COFFMAN BY 900 PM...AND INTO THE
TOWN OF STE GENEVIEVE BY 915 PM.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. SEEK INSIDE SHELTER
NOW!
 
GKS/RP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 8:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXIron, Reynolds50 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.