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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 8, 2000Cole County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 8:36 PM CDT for Cole County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 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 8, 2000, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Cole County, MO

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 8, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 223 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

064 
WUUS53 KLSX 090136
SVRSTL
MOC051-090215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
836 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 834 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST OF JEFFERSON CITY... MOVING EAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED...
  CENTERTOWN
  JEFFERSON CITY
  LOHMAN
  RUSSELLVILLE
  BRAZITO

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.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING.

MB/GKS/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 May 8, 3:36 PM CDT, 5 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 3:36 PM CDT, 5 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
335 PM MON MAY 8 2000

WL KP DISC SHORT WITH SVR WX PENDING. MAIN PROBS TO BE ONSET AND
PLACEMENT OF TSRA THIS EVE AND TUE. STG MIDLVL CAP IN PLACE ATTIM
AND QUES IS EXACTLY WHEN IT WILL BREAK. XPCT FIRST CNVCTV DVLPMT IN
NRN ZNS CLOSEST TO FNT AND THEN SPRD S ALG WITH SWD MVMT OF CFNT.
SGT DYNAMICS IN PLACE FOR BOTH SVR ACTVTY OVR NE MO TNGT AND HVY
PCPN EVENT ON TUE. PWS IN EXCESS OF 1.5 IN OVR NRN ZNS FM THIS AFTN
INTO TUE AFTN. FFG PRETTY HI FOR CYS IN NRN ZNS SO WL HOLD OFF ANY
FLASH FLOOD WATCHES BUT NXT SHIFTS WL HAVE TO MONITOR.

MDLS HV CFNT CFNT MOVG INTO CTRL MO BY MDNGT TNGT AND THEN STALLING
AND ADVCTG BACK N ON TUE AS WRM FNT. HVIEST PCPN TO BE TO N OF FNT
WITH STG OVRRNG AND CFNT COMING BACK THRU RGN LT TUE AS SFC LO MVS
NE.

MDL TEMPS SHW COOLER TREND ON TUE FM PREV GUID AND HV ACCEPTED DUE
TO CLDS AND PCPN. WL GO LIKELY IN SERN ZNS ON TUE AND CATEGORICAL IN
WRN AND NRN ZNS VCNTY OF CFNT.

.STL...NONE.

WDB

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 3:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
338 PM CDT MON MAY 08 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0202 PM    NASHVILLE                 IL   WIND DAMAGE
05/09/00   WASHINGTON                     TREES DOWNED IN NASHVILLE

0225 PM    SANDOVAL                  IL   WIND DAMAGE
05/09/00   MARION                         TREES DOWNED

0225 PM    ODIN                      IL   WIND DAMAGE
05/09/00   MARION                         TREES DOWNED

0225 PM    CENTRALIA                 IL   1 INCH HAIL
05/09/00   MARION                         NICKEL TO OCCASIONALLY 1
                                          INCH DIAMETER HAIL IN
                                          DOWNTOWN CENTRALIA

0237 PM    SALEM                     IL   WIND DAMAGE
05/09/00   MARION                         8-9 INCH DIAMETER TREES
                                          AND POWER LINES DOWNED BY
                                          HIGH WINDS

0237 PM    SALEM                     IL   .75 INCH HAIL
05/09/00   MARION                         DIME SIZED HAIL

TRUETT

Local storm report, May 8, 4:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
400 PM CDT MON MAY 08 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0237 PM    SALEM                     IL   WIND DAMAGE
05/09/00   MARION                         4-5 FT DIAMETER TREE
                                          DOWNED BY HIGH WINDS.
                                          SEVERAL 1-2 FT
                                          DIAMETER TREES ALSO
                                          DOWNED.  FROM MARION CO.
                                          ESDA

TRUETT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone	52 min
May 8, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain	48 min
May 8, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Knox	38 min
May 8, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone	50 min
May 8, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Callaway	52 min
May 8, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Moniteau	48 min
May 8, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lewis	53 min
May 8, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike, Ralls	52 min
May 8, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery	50 min
May 8, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	48 min
May 8, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Moniteau	37 min
May 8, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Callaway	44 min
May 9, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone, Moniteau	46 min
May 9, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Cole	44 min
May 9, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade	34 min
May 9, 1:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Warren	41 min
May 9, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	36 min

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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.