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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS St. Louis, MO

April 28, 2003Montgomery County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2003, 2:24 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 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 28, 2003, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 2003, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montgomery County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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 nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 290 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2003-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2003-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

426 
WUUS53 KLSX 281924
SVRLSX
MOC139-282000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
224 PM CDT MON APR 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 224 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF BIG SPRING...MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE DAMAGING HAIL.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NEW FLORENCE

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 3890 9165 3872 9165 3871 9143 3915 9136

$$
FG

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 8:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXMonroe46 min
Apr 28, 8:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBoone, Moniteau39 min
Apr 28, 9:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXAudrain67 min
Apr 28, 10:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGasconade, Osage41 min
Apr 28, 2:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXWarren34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.