Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1999, 7:07 PM CST for Crawford County, Washington County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 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
- Mar 5, 1999, 7:07 PM CST (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1999, 7:40 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, MO, Washington County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 324 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
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 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 060108 RRA SVRSTL MOC055-221-060140- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 707 PM CST FRI MAR 5 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 740 PM CST * AT 705 PM CST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF STEELVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... ANTHONIES MILLS DIME SIZED HAIL AT STEELVILLE AT 700 PM THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS DAMAGING HAIL. LARGE HAIL CAN CAUSE EXTENSIVE PROPERTY DAMAGE AN SERIOUS INJURY TO PEOPLE CAUGHT OUTDOORS. MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. TES/WDB &
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, Mar 5, 4:00 PM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 400 PM CST FRI MAR 5 1999 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 1000 PM CST. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... BARRY MCDONALD NEWTON STONE TANEY CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE...BRANSON...CASSVILLE...AND NEOSHO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TERRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 7:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 33 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.