Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2000, 2:08 PM CDT for City of Saint Louis, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min. 3 reports 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
- Jun 24, 2000, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County City of Saint Louis, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | High Ridge, MO | Storm spotters reported some trees down near High Ridge. |
| Jun 24, 2:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Affton, MO | Storm spotters reported some trees down in the Affton area. |
| Jun 24, 2:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Carondelet, MO | St. Louis Police reported power lines down in the south part of town. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLSX 241908 SVRSTL ILC133-163-MOC099-189-510-242000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 208 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ST. LOUIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ST. LOUIS CITY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS NORTHWESTERN ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 208 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MURPHY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... MEHLVILLE OAKVILLE DUPO COLUMBIA 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 STRUCTUR=E SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. LAT...LON 3868 9062 3825 9063 3818 9004 3877 9018 LENNING/TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Pike | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 1:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 2:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin, Montgomery, Warren | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 5:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren, City of Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 9:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Montgomery, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren, City of Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Louis | 52 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.