Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 6:02 PM CDT for Iron County, Missouri. It was in force for 28 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 13, 1997, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iron County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 132304 SVRSTL MOC093-132330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 602 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI ...IRON COUNTY AT 600 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BIXBY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWNS OF BELLEVIEW AND IRONTON BY 630 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ECKBERG
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jun 13, 5:27 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
MOZ075-074-132245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 525 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997 ...TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR ST FRANCOIS COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM... RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM NEAR FARMINGTON AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED... BUT NO CONFIRM TORNADO TOUCHDOWN YET. THE STORM MAY STILL PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANYTIME. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY! & ECKBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Francois, Washington | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Francois | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Saint Francois | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.