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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 6, 1996Osage County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 12:26 PM CDT for Osage County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 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 6, 1996, 12:26 PM CDT (17:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1996, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Osage County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 243 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 269 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 152 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
269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
3.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 061728
SVRSTL
MOC151-061815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1226 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...SOUTHERN OSAGE COUNTY
 
AT 1225 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
SOUTHWEST OSAGE COUNTY JUST EAST OF META MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM
ARE FREEBURG AND ARGYLE.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
RP/FG

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
MOZ009-010-018-019-026-027-034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-
084-085-099-ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-071100-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1030 AM CDT T

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
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, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLewis60 min
Jun 5, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike68 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, 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 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.