Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1996, 10:27 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 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
- May 2, 1996, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 10:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Festus, 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 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 1873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 532 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 030329 SVRSTL MOC099-030400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1027 PM CDT THU MAY 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 1027 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS DETECTING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN HOUSE SPRINGS AND HILLSBORO. IT WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS OF HILLSBORO AND FESTUS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM W:INDOWS. GKS/TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 44 min |
| May 2, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 36 min |
| May 3, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 54 min |
| May 3, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 34 min |
| May 3, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 22 min |
| May 3, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 48 min |
| May 3, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 20 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.