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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS St. Louis, MO

April 18, 1997Calhoun County, Illinois; Lincoln County, Pike County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1997, 8:51 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Illinois; Lincoln County, Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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 18, 1997, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired
Apr 18, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Calhoun County, IL, Lincoln County, MO, Pike County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 18, 9:40 PM CDTHail 0.88Bowling Green, 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 226 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1997-04-19Temperature 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1997-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2539 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSTL 190153 RRA
SVRSTL
ILC013-MOC113-163-190230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
851 PM CDT FRI APR 18 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS
 
   ...CALHOUN COUNTY
 
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...LINCOLN COUNTY...SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 850 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BOWLING GREEN
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE EOLIA...SILEX...ELSBERRY AND HARDIN.
 
HAIL AT LEAST 1 INCH IN DIAMETER CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
 
JPK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 18, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXPike47 min
Apr 18, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCalhoun45 min
Apr 18, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison, Saint Clair40 min
Apr 18, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGreene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison43 min
Apr 18, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJersey, Madison49 min
Apr 19, 12:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXClinton, Saint Clair, Washington41 min
Apr 18, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin, Jefferson, Saint Louis38 min
Apr 18, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Charles, Warren33 min
Apr 18, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBoone, Callaway45 min
Apr 18, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Charles, Saint Louis32 min
Apr 18, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCity of Saint Louis32 min
Apr 18, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCole, Moniteau38 min
Apr 18, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Charles, Saint Louis50 min
Apr 18, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBoone51 min
Apr 19, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.