Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 26, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 9:03 PM CDT for Reynolds 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
- Apr 19, 1996, 9:03 PM CDT (02:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 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 02:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 200205 TORSTL MOC179-200245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 903 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI ...CENTRAL REYNOLDS COUNTY AT 904 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO NEAR ELLINGTON IN CENTRAL REYNOLDS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHE AST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE JUST NORTH OF CLEARWATER LAKE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY AND SEEK SHELTER NOW!
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Apr 19, 3:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-048>052-059>065-200400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 400 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN MISSOURI DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR THE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL PORTION. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREA... COLUMBIA...JEFFERSON CITY...MEXICO...AND THE HANNIBAL...QUINCY AREA. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 6:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
ILZ098-MOZ036-052-060-061-200215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 625 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR A PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... THE6 TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PIKE COUNTY MISSOURI ALONG WITH LINCOLN...WARREN...AND ST CHARLES COUNTIES. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED TO THE EAST OF THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 8:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
ILZ099-100-MOZ062>064-200400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 800 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH IS CANCELLED FOR A PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR MADISON AND JERSEY COUNTIES IN ILLINOIS AND ST LOUIS AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES IN MISSOURI ALONG WITH ST LOUIS CITY. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED TO THE EAST OF THE AREA.
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, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Iron, Saint Francois | 56 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, 9:17 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.