Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2000, 3:49 PM CDT for Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2000, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sainte Genevieve County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 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 072049 SVRSTL MOC186-072145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 349 PM CDT FRI APR 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 347 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF BONNE TERRE... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED... BLOOMSDALE STE GENEVIEVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DAMAGING HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. GKS/FG
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles | 59 min |
| Apr 7, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 47 min |
| Apr 7, 5:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Warren | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 2:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 55 min |
| Apr 7, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 56 min |
| Apr 7, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Francois, Washington | 46 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.