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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 4:52 PM CDT for Franklin County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 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, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1194 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 062154 SVRSTL MOC071-062230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 452 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 453 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF GERALD. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF UNION AND ST CLAIR SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TRUETT/GLASS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Knox | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Shelby | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Monroe, Ralls | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Shelby | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Saint Louis | 44 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.