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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS St. Louis, MO

April 16, 2000Gasconade County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2000, 1:28 PM CDT for Gasconade County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2000, 1:28 PM CDT (18:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Gasconade County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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
Apr 16, 1:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Rosebud, MO	The County Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail.

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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 265 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: 126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 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.

020 
WUUS53 KLSX 161828
SVRSTL
MOC073-161900-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
128 PM CDT SUN APR 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GASCONADE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 128 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF BLEND... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED...
  OWENSVILLE
  BERN

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.

TRUETT/RP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade, Montgomery, Osage	35 min
Apr 16, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin	29 min
Apr 16, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Warren	52 min
Apr 16, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Ralls	50 min
Apr 16, 2:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Warren	34 min
Apr 16, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Saint Charles	46 min
Apr 16, 2:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Saint Charles	32 min
Apr 16, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford, Washington	51 min
Apr 16, 3:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Saint Charles, Saint Louis	46 min
Apr 16, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jefferson	49 min
Apr 16, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jefferson	49 min
Apr 16, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	49 min
Apr 16, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Charles, Saint Louis	47 min
Apr 16, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	51 min
Apr 16, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Charles	43 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.