Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2001, 4:43 PM CDT for Franklin County, 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 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, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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, 5:13 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | New Haven, MO | The Franklin County Sheriff office reported 3/4 inch hail west of New Haven. |
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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 279 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 172146 SVRSTL MOC071-073-172215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 443 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI NORTHERN GASCONADE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 443 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF NEW HAVEN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH... NEW HAVEN BERGER SWISS STONY HILL 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 COVERS THE ROAD. LAT...LON 3855 9157 3843 9140 3859 9116 3871 9140
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 56 min |
| May 17, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Boone | 40 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.