Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT for Boone County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 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
- Apr 14, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boone County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 602 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 142230 SVRSTL MOC019-142330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 530 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...BOONE COUNTY AT 525 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER EASTERN COOPER COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING ONE TO TWO INCH DIAMETER HAIL. COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE MIDWAY...HUNTSDALE...AND LUPUS. THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INTO THE COLUMBIA AREA BY 600 PM CDT. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING HAIL. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. METZE/GLASS
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, Apr 14, 2:24 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019-026- 027-034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-150100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 222 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NWS OFFICE IN ST. LOUIS. AREAS INCLUDED ARE PARTS OF CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. THERE ARE TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RISK AREAS THROUGHOUT THE ST LOUIS COUNTY WARNING AREA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. COMMUNITIES IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA ARE COLUMBIA...JEFFERSON CITY...AND THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREA IN MISSOURI AND MASCOUTAH...OKAWVILLE...NASHVILLE..CHESTER...AND SALEM IN ILLINOIS. A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS OVER THE MISSOURI EASTERN OZARKS AND INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF THE MARK TWAIN NATIONAL FOREST..IRONTON...FREDRICKTOWN...FARMINGTON...AND REYONLDS. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER EASTERN KANSAS WILL RACE THROUGH CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MISSOURI TONIGHT. LOOK FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER WESTERN MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND QUICKLY HEAD NORTH- NORTHEASTWARD TONIGHT ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. AT THIS TIME...THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...HOWEVER ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA TONIGHT. STORM SPOBTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES...WARNING...AND SKYWARN ACTION. METZE
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 53 min |
Nearby
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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.