Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1996, 4:19 PM CDT for Pike County, Ralls County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 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
- Apr 19, 1996, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | New London, 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2232 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 192120 SVRSTL MOC163-173-192200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 419 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...RALLS COUNTY AT 418 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF CENTER MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF FRANKFORD...CENTER...AND SAVERTON ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF OUTDOORS...BSEEK INSIDE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. FG/DB
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 19, 10:32 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019-026- 027-035-036-052-060>065-073>075-084-085-099-192100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1031 AM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TO DEVELOP BY MID AFTERNOON HOURS THROUGH THIS EVENING OVER MOST OF EASTERN MISSOURI. THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HANNIBAL AND QUINCY AREA...ST LOUIS METRO AREA AND DOWN INTO FARMINGTON AND POPLAR BLUFF AND THE ENTIRE BOOTHEEL AREA...ALSO THERE IS HIGH RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BELLEVILLE...VANDALIA...AND CENTRALIA..STE GENEVIEVE...CAPE GIRARDEAU. AT THIS TIME PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKY WAS REPORTED IN MISSOURI...HOWEVER DEWPOINT IN THE 60S WAS REPORTED OVER MOST OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLIONOIS...THIS WILL RESULT IN A VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS AND WILL BE PRONE TO TRIGGER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BY THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. PERSONS IN EASTERN MISSOURI...WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. VINCE
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 3:56 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-048>052-059>065-200400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 400 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN MISSOURI DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR THE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL PORTION. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREA... COLUMBIA...JEFFERSON CITY...MEXICO...AND THE HANNIBAL...QUINCY AREA. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Franklin, Washington | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | City of Saint Louis | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 68 min |
| Apr 19, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Washington | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | City of Saint Louis | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Crawford, Washington | 69 min |
| Apr 19, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.