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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 5, 1996Pike County, Illinois; Pike County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 10:07 PM CDT for Pike County, Illinois; Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 68 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
Jun 5, 1996, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pike County, IL, Pike County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1996-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 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 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 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 
TTAA00 KSTL 060309
SVRSTL
ILC149-MOC163-060415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1007 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 
   ...PIKE COUNTY
 
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 1005 PM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER
NORTHEAST MISSOURI...FROM NEAR HANNIBAL TO MARK TWAIN LAKE.
 
THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH...AND WILL BE
AFFECTING THE TOWNS OF BOWLING GREEN AND PITTSFIELLD BETWEEN 1030 AND
11 PM.
 
REMEMBER.d..A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
IF OUTDOORS...SEEK INSIDE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
 
TRUETT/RP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAdams60 min
Jun 5, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXAdams34 min
Jun 5, 10:24 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXPike36 min
Jun 6, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMonroe, Saint Clair49 min
Jun 6, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMonroe, Randolph46 min
Jun 6, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion45 min
Jun 5, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXKnox, Lewis42 min
Jun 5, 9:12 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXKnox33 min
Jun 5, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXShelby45 min
Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion, Monroe, Ralls60 min
Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXMonroe, Ralls5 hr
Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXShelby5 hr
Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXMonroe, Ralls50 min
Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMonroe, Ralls50 min
Jun 6, 12:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXOsage49 min
Jun 6, 2:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXWashington52 min
Jun 6, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin38 min
Jun 6, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin, Saint Louis44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1996Severe 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.