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Tornado Warning 47, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 2000, 8:17 PM CDT for Saint Charles County, Saint Louis County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 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, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KLSX 190118
TORSTL
MOC183-189-190200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
817 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN ST. CHARLES COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
NORTHERN ST. LOUIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 817 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER KAMPVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
ST. CHARLES
ORCHARD FARMS
BRIDGETON
HAZELWOOD
FLORISSANT
BERKELEY
DELLWOOD
FERGUSON
BLACK JACK
KINLOCH
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW! A BASEMENT
OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...MOVE TO
THE LOWEST FLOOR AND SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. STAY AWAY
FROM OUTSIDE WALLS AND WINDOWS. MOBILE HOMES SHNOULD BE ABANDONED IN
FAVOR OF A MORE SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE. DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO
IN A VEHICLE.
LAT...LON 3891 9054 3882 9071 3871 9027 3886 9013
3896 9042
FGThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 49 min |
| Jul 18, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Louis | 49 min |
| Jul 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jul 18, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Montgomery, Warren | 42 min |
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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.