Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1999, 11:03 PM CDT for Franklin County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 12, 1999, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 1999, 11:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 11:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Gerald, MO | |
| Aug 12, 11:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 | Union, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 1165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1321 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 437 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 130402 RRA SVRSTL MOC071-130450- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1103 PM CDT THU AUG 12 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 1150 PM CDT * AT 1102 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHEAST OF GERALD... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... ST CLAIR SULLIVAN WASHINGTON UNION THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. MOVE QUICKLY TO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. FG/RP
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.
NWS St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 12, 2:45 PM CDT, 8 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 2:45 PM CDT, 8 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 245 PM CDT THU AUG 12 1999 EXPECT CAPS TO WEAKEN THIS EVE AND FNT MOV THRU AREA TRIGGERING SCT SHWRS AND TSTMS OVR ENTIRE CWA ESPECIALLY NORTHERN PORTIONS. SHWRS MAY LINGER ERN SECTS FRI MRNG BUT OUT OF AREA BY AFTN WITH CLEARING SKIES. NOT AS WARM FRI AND DRYER WITH WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS SLOWLY SHIFTING TO NORTHERLY FRIDAY NIGHT. COOLER FRI NIGHT AND SATURDAY BUT WARMING TREND SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. LOOKS DRY FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. NGM MOS TMPS LOOK OK. .STL...NONE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 12, 10:49 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
ILZ095-MOZ027-035-130500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1049 PM CDT THU AUG 12 1999 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 632 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI... MARION RALLS IN ILLINOIS... ADAMS BROWN .END GLASS
Special weather statement, Aug 12, 10:49 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
ILZ095-MOZ027-035-130500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 1049 PM CDT THU AUG 12 1999 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 632 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI... MARION RALLS IN ILLINOIS... ADAMS BROWN .END GLASS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 36 min |
| Aug 12, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Montgomery | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 50 min |
| Aug 13, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.