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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 333, NWS St. Louis, MO

July 18, 2000Lincoln County, Pike County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2000, 5:57 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 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
Jul 18, 2000, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Lincoln County, MO, Pike County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2000-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1400 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 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.

000 
WUUS53 KLSX 182258
SVRSTL
ILC013-061-MOC113-163-182345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
557 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  SOUTHEASTERN PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
  NORTHERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
  SOUTHWESTERN GREENE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF ELSBERRY...MOVING EAST AT 15
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
  HARDIN
  CARROLLTON

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 FLOODr ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3935 9090 3917 9093 3909 9040 3934 9037

TRUETT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMontgomery41 min
Jul 18, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMontgomery45 min
Jul 18, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXLincoln41 min
Jul 18, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXLincoln, Warren50 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.