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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 226, NWS St. Louis, MO

September 23, 1996Crawford County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 1996, 11:17 AM CDT for Crawford County, Missouri. It was in force for 28 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
Sep 23, 1996, 11:17 AM CDT (16:17 UTC)
Expired
Sep 23, 1996, 11:45 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Crawford County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 251 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 1996-09-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 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 1996-09-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 400 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-431 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
400 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
397 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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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.