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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 7, 1996Madison County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1996, 9:44 PM CDT for Madison County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 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
Jul 7, 1996, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1996, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 313 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3056 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 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
3056 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 8:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXIron, Reynolds41 min
Jul 8, 9:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison35 min
Jul 8, 9:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison22 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.