Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 5, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2002, 4:56 PM CDT for Madison County, Missouri. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2002, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2002, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Madison County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 24, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 295 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
- 749 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLSX 242156 CCA TORSTL MOC123-242215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED...TOWNS IN THE PATH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 444 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 444 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES SOUTH OF FREDERICKTOWN. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME * TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE MARQUAND RURAL AREAS ALONG HIGHWAY 67 RURAL AREAS ALONG HIGHWAY A THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW MOVE TO A BASEMENT...UNDERGROUND STORM SHELTER...OR AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS DO NOT OPEN WINDOWS...STAY AWAY FROM THEM...OPENING WINDOWS DOES NOT MINIMIZE THE DAMAGE OF A TORNADO. LAT...LON 3757 9034 3733 9036 3732 9016 3758 9015
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 57 min | |
| Apr 24, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 35 min | |
| Apr 24, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 29 min | |
| Apr 24, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 45 min | |
| Apr 24, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 29 min | |
| Apr 24, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 49 min | |
| Apr 24, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 25 min | |
| Apr 24, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 54 min | |
| Apr 24, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 14 min | |
| Apr 24, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 54 min | |
| Apr 24, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 25 min | |
| Apr 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 60 min | |
| Apr 24, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 47 min | |
| Apr 24, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 16 min | |
| Apr 24, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 33 min | |
| Apr 24, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 61 min | |
| Apr 24, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 25 min |
| Apr 24, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 33 min | |
| Apr 24, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 48 min | |
| Apr 24, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 16 min | |
| Apr 24, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 41 min | |
| Apr 24, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Madison | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | 45 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.