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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 31, 2004Pike County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2004, 6:18 PM CDT for Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min. 10 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 2004, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pike County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 31, 6:36 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Bowling Green, MO	LARGE TREE DOWN AT BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
May 31, 6:36 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Bowling Green, MO	LARGE TREE DOWN AT BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
May 31, 6:36 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Bowling Green, MO	LARGE TREE DOWN AT BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
May 31, 6:36 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Bowling Green, MO	LARGE TREE DOWN AT BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
May 31, 6:36 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Bowling Green, MO	LARGE TREE DOWN AT BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
May 31, 6:42 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Eolia, MO	TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN
May 31, 6:42 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Eolia, MO	TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN
May 31, 6:42 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Eolia, MO	TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN
May 31, 6:42 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Eolia, MO	TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN
May 31, 6:42 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Eolia, MO	TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 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.

371 
WUUS53 KLSX 312318
SVRLSX
MOC163-010000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
618 PM CDT MON MAY 31 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 618 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CURRYVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BOWLING GREEN
  EOLIA
  LOUISIANA

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 3941 9144 3917 9140 3923 9072 3956 9118

$$
FG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln, Montgomery	40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.