Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1998, 1:52 AM CDT for Madison County, Illinois; Saint Louis County, City of Saint Louis, Missouri. It was in force for 63 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
- May 22, 1998, 1:52 AM CDT (06:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1998, 2:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Madison County, IL, City of Saint Louis, MO, Saint Louis County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:54 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 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 1615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
886 WUUS1 KSTL 220653 RRA SVRSTL ILC119-MOC189-510-220755- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 152 AM CDT FRI MAY 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY ILLINOIS IN SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS NORTHERN ST LOUIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ST LOUIS CITY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 255 AM CDT * AT 150 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FEURGUSON... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... GRANITE CITY MADISON MARYVILLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DAMAGING HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. DM/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, May 21, 8:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
MOZ072>075-084-085-099-220145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 810 PM CDT THU MAY 21 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI...CRAWFORD...WASHINGTON...ST. FRANCOIS...STE. GENEVIEVE ...REYNOLDS...IRON...AND MADISON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL END OVER THIS AREA THIS EVENING. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY AGAIN OVERNIGHT. AMS
Special weather statement, May 21, 8:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
MOZ072>075-084-085-099-220145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 810 PM CDT THU MAY 21 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI...CRAWFORD...WASHINGTON...ST. FRANCOIS...STE. GENEVIEVE ...REYNOLDS...IRON...AND MADISON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL END OVER THIS AREA THIS EVENING. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY AGAIN OVERNIGHT. AMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 64 min |
| May 22, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun | 65 min |
| May 22, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 33 min |
| May 22, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 48 min |
| May 22, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 61 min |
| May 22, 2:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 51 min |
| May 22, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene | 64 min |
| May 22, 3:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin | 65 min |
| May 22, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jersey | 47 min |
| May 22, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 51 min |
| May 22, 5:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond | 48 min |
| May 22, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette | 50 min |
| May 22, 5:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion | 50 min |
| May 22, 7:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 35 min |
| May 22, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown, Pike | 50 min |
| May 22, 8:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Greene, Macoupin | 33 min |
| May 22, 9:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 48 min |
| May 21, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 48 min |
| May 22, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Scotland | 60 min |
| May 22, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 61 min |
| May 22, 1:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clark, Lewis | 63 min |
| May 22, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Shelby | 63 min |
| May 22, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 62 min |
| May 22, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 49 min |
| May 22, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade | 45 min |
| May 22, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.