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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 5, 1996Saint Francois County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 12:39 PM CDT for Saint Francois County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 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 5, 1996, 12:39 PM CDT (17:39 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Saint Francois County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 306 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 268 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
334 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 051740
SVRSTL
MOC187-051830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1239 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY
 
AT 1235 PM CDT NWS RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
ANTHONIES MILLS...CALEDONIA...BELLEVIEW...IRONTON...THEN SOUTHWEST TO
NEAR ELLINGTON.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE BISMARCK...PARK HILLS...FARMINGTON AND
KNOB LICK.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.
SEEK INSIDE SHELTER NOW!
 
JPK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 8:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMoniteau68 min
May 5, 8:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCole53 min
May 5, 11:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCrawford49 min
May 5, 11:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXIron, Washington61 min
May 5, 11:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXReynolds61 min
May 5, 12:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison38 min
May 5, 2:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXSainte Genevieve3 hr

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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.