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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS St. Louis, MO

October 17, 1996Madison County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 17, 1996, 6:03 PM CDT for Madison County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 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, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Oct 17, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 313 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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 1 hour 48 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...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOME PARTS OF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, 1 hour 15 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

Special weather statement, Oct 17, 5:45 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

ILZ058-059-MOZ063-064-072-172330-

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

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOME PARTS OF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

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

IN EASTERN MISSOURI...ST LOUIS COUNTY AND ST LOUIS CITY...AND CRAWFORD
COUNTY...ARE NO LONGER IN THE WATCH.  IN ILLINOIS....GREENE AND
MACOUPIN COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED.

TRUETT

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, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Reynolds	36 min
Oct 17, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron	38 min
Oct 17, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	29 min
Oct 17, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe	38 min
Oct 17, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Clair	45 min
Oct 17, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Clinton	40 min
Oct 17, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Bond	29 min
Oct 17, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Fayette	34 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.