Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 2001, 6:27 PM CDT for Franklin County, Gasconade County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 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 21, 2001, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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.
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 21, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion | 47 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.