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Tornado Warning 35, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 5, 1996Knox County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 9:12 PM CDT for Knox County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 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
Jun 5, 1996, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Knox County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 203 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1996-06-06Temperature 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 060213
TORSTL
MOC103-060245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
912 PM CDT WED JUN 5 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 NORTHEAST MISSOURI
 
   ...SOUTHERN KNOX COUNTY
 
AT 911 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER
SOUTHWEST KNOX COUNTY...NEAR NOLVELTY. THE STORM WAS8 MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
30 MPH. THE TOWNS OF NOVELTY AND NEWARK ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT
OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXKnox, Lewis42 min
Jun 5, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXShelby45 min
Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion, Monroe, Ralls60 min
Jun 5, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXLewis60 min
Jun 5, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike68 min
Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXMonroe, Ralls5 hr
Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXShelby5 hr
Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLSXMonroe, Ralls50 min
Jun 6, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMonroe, Ralls50 min
Jun 6, 12:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXOsage49 min
Jun 6, 2:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXWashington52 min
Jun 6, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin38 min
Jun 6, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin, Saint Louis44 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.