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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 26, 2000Pike County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 10:22 PM CDT for Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2000, 10:22 PM CDT (03:22 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pike County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 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
May 26, 11:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Louisiana, MO	The City Police Department reported numerous trees down.

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
May 26, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 839 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.

167 
WUUS53 KLSX 270323
SVRSTL
ILC001-149-MOC163-270400-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1022 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
  WESTERN PIKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  ADAMS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1022 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST OF URSA TO
  20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUINCY TO 18 MILES WEST OF FRANKFORD..MOVING
  EAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED...
  LIMA
  QUINCY
  MENDON
  LORAINE
  CAMP POINT
  FRANKFORD
  ASHBURN
  LOUISIANA

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY
BUILDING IMMEDIATELY.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

LAT...LON 4020 9149 3971 9140 3958 9123 3944 9144
          3915 9145 3924 9076 3938 9088 3975 9093
          4021 9097

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford	42 min
May 26, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Washington	42 min
May 26, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe, Shelby	50 min
May 26, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain	50 min
May 26, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Knox	43 min
May 26, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone	49 min
May 26, 9:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Monroe	37 min
May 26, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Marion, Ralls	49 min
May 26, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lewis	49 min
May 26, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Boone, Callaway	43 min
May 26, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain	27 min
May 26, 10:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Pike	26 min
May 27, 12:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau, Osage	6 hr

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.