Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 2, 1996Reynolds County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1996, 9:01 PM CDT for Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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
May 2, 1996, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Reynolds County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1996-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1001 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1001 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1427 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
5.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 030202
SVRSTL
MOC179-030245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
901 PM CDT THU MAY 2 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...SOUTHERN REYNOLDS COUNTY
 
AT 900 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS DETECTING A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILE SOUTH OF ELLINGTON. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH. IT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS OF GARWOOD AND CLEARWATER LAKE
BETWEEN 910 AND 935 PM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE ANpD AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
GKS/TRUETT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson33 min
May 2, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSainte Genevieve36 min
May 3, 1:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXReynolds54 min
May 3, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLincoln34 min
May 3, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Charles22 min
May 3, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Charles48 min
May 3, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Louis20 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.