Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1996, 2:03 PM CDT for Crawford County, Washington County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1996, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1996, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, MO, Washington County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Bourbon, MO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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
- 1793 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 281906 SVRSTL MOC055-221-281945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 203 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...EASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY...WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 200 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF BOURBON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN STEELVILLE AND ANTHONIES MILLS...NEAR SHIRLEY AND COURTOIS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Jul 28, 11:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
MOZ042-041-050-010-048-072-062-059-084-018-019-052-085-027-047- 051-034-049-036-035-099-061-075-074-063-064-009-026-060-073-ILZ095- 064-096-098-069-065-058-099-059-100-070-102-060-097-079-101-074- MOZ065-290000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1120 AM CDT SUN JUL 28 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 IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT OVER NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI...GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A HANNIBAL....JEFFERSON CITY LINE. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO FORM OVER NORTHERN KANSAS AND SOUTHERN NEBRASKA SUNDAY EVENING...WITH THIS ACTIVITY ROLLING SOUTHEAST DURING THE NIGHT. FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI...THIS MEANS THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE AFTER MIDNIGHT. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD KEEP ADVISED OF THE LATEST FORECAST FOR POSSIBLE SKYWARN ACTION. GLASS
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.