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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS St. Louis, MO

June 4, 2000Lincoln County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2000, 7:01 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2000, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lincoln County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 366 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLSX 050003
SVRSTL
MOC113-050100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
701 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 701 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF DAVIS..MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED...
  TROY
  MOSCOW MILLS
  FOLEY
  WINFIELD
  OLD MONROE

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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 3920 9100 3907 9115 3888 9097 3893 9071
          3907 9070

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Osage	54 min
Jun 4, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin	51 min
Jun 4, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Jefferson	51 min
Jun 4, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Washington	39 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.