Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1997, 5:41 PM CDT for Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 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
- Jul 19, 1997, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sainte Genevieve County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 99 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 1479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 192242 RRA SVRSTL MOC186-192315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 541 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...EASTERN STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTY AT 538 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF STE GENEVIEVE NEAR ST MARY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 5 MPH AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH AND AROUND ONE INCH DIAMETER HAIL. A COMMUNITY IN THE PATH IS ST MARY. THIS IS A DANG*EROUS STORM! BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. RP/METZE
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
Local storm report, Jul 19, 5:35 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MISSOURI
535 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0210 PM BARRY IL WIND DAMAGE
07/19/97 PIKE POWER LINES DOWN
0245 PM CAMP POINT IL 1 INCH HAIL
07/19/97 ADAMS
0245 PM CAMP POINT IL WIND DAMAGE
07/19/97 ADAMS TREES DOWN
0343 PM ST PETERS MO 1 INCH HAIL
07/19/97 ST CHARLES
0346 PM ST PETERS MO .75 INCH HAIL
07/19/97 ST CHARLES
0350 PM PARIS MO WIND DAMAGE
07/19/97 MONROE TREES DOWN
METZELocal storm report, Jul 19, 5:37 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MISSOURI
535 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0210 PM BARRY IL WIND DAMAGE
07/19/97 PIKE POWER LINES DOWN
0245 PM CAMP POINT IL 1 INCH HAIL
07/19/97 ADAMS
0245 PM CAMP POINT IL WIND DAMAGE
07/19/97 ADAMS TREES DOWN
0343 PM ST PETERS MO 1 INCH HAIL
07/19/97 ST CHARLES
0346 PM ST PETERS MO .75 INCH HAIL
07/19/97 ST CHARLES
0350 PM PARIS MO WIND DAMAGE
07/19/97 MONROE TREES DOWN
METZEThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Ralls | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Jul 19, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clark | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 53 min |
| Jul 19, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 45 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.