Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2001, 3:49 PM CDT for Boone County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 2001, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2001, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Boone County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Midway, MO | Several people witnessed a brief tornado form near the Midway Truck Stop. There was no reported damage. |
| May 17, 4:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Columbia, MO | Storm spotters reported nickle size hail at Stadium Blvd and I-70. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 1485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 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 172050 SVRSTL MOC019-172145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 349 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 347 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ONE WAS 11 MILES NORTH OF MIDWAY AND THE SECOND WAS 5 MILES WEST OF ROCHEPORT. BOTH WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... HALLSVILLE MURRY CENTRALIA MIDWAY ROCHEPORT HINTON HARRISBURG 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 WHERE WATER COVERSS THE ROAD. LAT...LON 3921 9245 3899 9257 3887 9216 3925 9212
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Boone | 40 min |
| May 17, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Gasconade | 32 min |
| May 17, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 42 min |
| May 17, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Gasconade | 32 min |
| May 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Boone | 2 hr |
| May 17, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.