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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS St. Louis, MO

October 17, 1996Reynolds County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 17, 1996, 5:09 PM CDT for Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 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: Oct 17, 1996, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired: Oct 17, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Reynolds County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 256 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 943 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 424 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 414 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 172211
SVRSTL
MOC179-172245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
509 PM CDT THU OCT 17 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...NORTHERN REYNOLDS COUNTY
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE CENTERVILLE...REYNOLDS...BUNKER...OATES
AND JOHNSONS SHUT-INS STATE PARK.
 
NWS RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE SHANNON REYNOLDS
COUNTY LINE EAST OF ROUND SPRING. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL
OF 1 INCH OR LARGER AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
 
JPK

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, Oct 17, 4:15 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

ILZ096>099-MOZ036-049-051-052-059>062-172145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
412 PM CDT THU OCT 17 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOME PARTS OF
EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EXTREME WESTERN ILLINOIS...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A FEW COUNTIES IN
EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EXTREME WESTERN ILLINOIS.  THE COLD FRONT
THAT PRODUCED THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS NOW PASSED THROUGH THESE
AREAS.

IN MISSOURI...THE COUNTIES OF OSAGE....PIKE...MONTGOMERY...
GASCONADE...LINCOLN ..WARREN...FRANKLIN...AND ST CHARLES ARE NO LONGER
IN THE WATCH.  IN ILLINOIS...BROWN...PIKE...CALHOUN...AND JERSEY
COUNTIES ARE CLEARED.

TRUETT

Local storm report, Oct 17, 4:48 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS
445 PM CDT THU OCT 17 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0308 PM    CUBA                      MO   .75 INCH HAIL
10/17/96   CRAWFORD

0310 PM    CUBA                      MO   .75 INCH HAIL
10/17/96   CRAWFORD                       JUST NORTH OF CUBA

0412 PM    HILLSBORO                 MO   1 INCH HAIL
10/17/9,6   JEFFERSON

0430 PM    PEAVLEY                   MO   .75 INCH HAIL
10/17/96   JEFFERSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 17, 1:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Osage	37 min
Oct 17, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade	33 min
Oct 17, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Warren	52 min
Oct 17, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford	38 min
Oct 17, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin	41 min
Oct 17, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jefferson	49 min
Oct 17, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Washington	44 min
Oct 17, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron	38 min
Oct 17, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996 Every 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.