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Tornado Warning 15, NWS St. Louis, MO

April 19, 1996Iron County, Saint Francois County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 7:04 PM CDT for Iron County, Saint Francois County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports 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, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Iron County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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, 7:36 PM CDT	Hail 1	Belleview, MO
Apr 19, 7:50 PM CDT	Hail 1	Knob Lick, 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 297 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 200007
TORSTL
MOC187-093-200100-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
704 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...SOUTHERN ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...NORTHERN AND EASTERN IRON COUNTY
 
AT 705 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BELLEVIEW. IT WA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. IT WILL MOVE
THROUGH BELLEVIEW...GRANITEVILLE...PILOT KNOB...BISMARCK AND FARMINGTON.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT
OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL.
 
GKS/FG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	42 min
Apr 19, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford, Washington	49 min
Apr 19, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Reynolds	50 min
Apr 19, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve	47 min
Apr 19, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois	50 min
Apr 19, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron	49 min
Apr 19, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Iron, Reynolds	47 min
Apr 19, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Madison	52 min
Apr 19, 8:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Iron	3 hr
Apr 19, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois	48 min
Apr 19, 9:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Madison, Saint Francois	3 hr
Apr 19, 9:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Reynolds	42 min
Apr 19, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron, Reynolds	43 min
Apr 19, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.