Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1997, 2:37 PM CDT for Crawford County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 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 28, 1997, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1997, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 2010 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 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 281939 RRA SVRSTL MOC055-282030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 237 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHWESTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY AT 235 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST CRAWFORD COUNTY...NEAR COOKS STATION. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE TOWNS OF COOKS STATION AND CHERRYVILE ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BOATERS ON THE MERAMEC RIVER SHOULD MOVE OFF OF THE WATER. AMS
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 28, 11:24 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019-026- 027-034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-290600- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1130 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN ST LOUIS. AREAS INCLUDED ARE PARTS OF CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. SCATTERED THUND6ERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 11:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ009-010-018-019-026- 027-034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-290600- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1130 AM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 THIS OUTLOOK COVERS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN ST LOUIS. AREAS INCLUDED ARE PARTS OF CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
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.