Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 9, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 5:43 PM CDT for Washington County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 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, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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, 6:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Potosi, MO | |
| Apr 19, 6:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Potosi, 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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 284 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
- 2849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 532 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 192244 TORSTL MOC221-192315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 543 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 545 PM...THE ST LOUIS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY...THIS TONADO WILL HIT THE CITY OF POTOSI WITHIN 15 TO 30 MINUTES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL. SEEK SHELTER NOW IN A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM. YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF THOSE AROUND YOU MAY DEPEND ON YOUR ACTIONS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike, Ralls | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Franklin, Washington | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | City of Saint Louis | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 68 min |
| Apr 19, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Washington | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | City of Saint Louis | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Crawford, Washington | 69 min |
| Apr 19, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 54 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.