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Tornado Warning 28, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 25, 1996Pike County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1996, 5:37 PM CDT for Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 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 25, 1996, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Pike County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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 25, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Bowling Green, 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 237 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: 788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 298 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 252238
TORSTL
MOC163-252330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
537 PM CDT SAT MAY 25 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 535 PM...NWS DOPPLER ARE INDICATED A TORNADO FIVE MILES SOUTHWEST OF
BOWLING GREEN AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. COMMUNITIES IN THE
PATH ARE BOWLING GREEN AND CLARKSVILLE.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY AND SEEK SHELTER
NOW!
 
FERRY/METZE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade, Osage	68 min
May 25, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Boone, Callaway	64 min
May 25, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike, Ralls	43 min
May 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery	62 min
May 25, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Warren	55 min
May 25, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	49 min
May 25, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Charles	53 min
May 25, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis	43 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.