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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 464, NWS St. Louis, MO

October 4, 2000Madison County, Illinois; Saint Louis County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2000, 3:14 PM CDT for Madison County, Illinois; Saint Louis County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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
Oct 4, 2000, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Oct 4, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Madison County, IL, Saint Louis County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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 2000-10-04Temperature 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 km15 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 2000-10-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 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 042017
SVRSTL
ILC119-MOC189-042100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
314 PM CDT WED OCT 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN ST. LOUIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 314 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WOOD RIVER...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
  EDWARDSVILLE
  MARYVILLE
  ALTON
  WORDEN
  MARINE
  LIVINGSTON

THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL.

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 WHERDE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3899 9026 3876 9056 3866 8973 3900 8975

RP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 4, 9:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion50 min
Oct 4, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBond, Clinton41 min
Oct 4, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMadison43 min
Oct 4, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBond, Clinton47 min
Oct 4, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMarion41 min
Oct 4, 11:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGasconade, Osage53 min
Oct 4, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Charles, Warren48 min
Oct 4, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Charles42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.