Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2004, 7:06 PM CDT for Cole County, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 8, 2004, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cole County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 874 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1271 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
474 WUUS53 KLSX 090006 SVRLSX MOC051-135-090045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 705 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI MONITEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF HIGH POINT...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HIGH POINT RUSSELLVILLE MCGIRK CALIFORNIA CENTERTOWN JAMESTOWN 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 3849 9273 3833 9236 3853 9213 3886 9251 $$ GKS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 3:26 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:26 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 320 PM CDT TUE JUNE 8 2004 .DISCUSSION... MRNG UA DATA FM THE SFC THRU H50 SHOWED EXTENSIVE MSTR FM E TX INTO SW MO WITH THE LOW LVL MOIST AXIS EXTDG WELL INTO THE UPR MS VLY. THE LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS THIS DP TROPICAL MOIST PLUME WITH EMBEDDED DISTURBANCES CONTS TO SURGE NWD INTO THE MID MIDDLE MS VLY. ATTM RN AND TSRA ARE WDSPRD EAST OF THE CYCLONIC SHEAR AXIS AND COVER MUCH OF E TX AND SE OK/WRN AR. ACRS OUR AREA STG HTG AND THE AFOREMENTONED LOW LVL MSTR HAS RESULTED IN A VERY UNSTBL AIRMASS WITH LTL TO NO CAP. ISOLD TO SCT PULSE TSRA HAVE DVLPD IN RGNS OF LOCALLIZED FRCG AND WHERE CNVCTV TEMP HAS BEEN REACHED. RELATIVELY DRY SUB-CLOUD LAYER AIR - LARGE TEMP/DP SPREADS PRODUCING SOME STG AND GUSTY WINDS WITH THE TSRA AND PROMINENT OUTFLOWS ARE EVIDENT ON RADAR. WUD EXPECT THIS DIURNALLY INDUCED PULSE ACTVTY WL CONT THRU SUNSET THEN SHUD DSIPT WITH LOSS OF HTG/INSTABILITY. MEANWHILE TROPICAL SURGE WILL CONT NWD TNGT AND ENCROACH UPON CNTRL SXNS LATE TNGT. IF ACTVY OVR TX IS ANY INDICATION OF WX HERE TMW THEN WE SHUD SEE QUITE A BIT OF SHRA/TSRA...SPCLY STL WWD. THE THRUST OF MSTR AND SHRA/TSRA SHUD GRADUALLY SHUNT EWD WED NGT THRU THURS AS THE CYCLONIC SHEAR AXIS/TROPICAL MSTR PLUME SHIFTS EWD IN RESPONSE TO THE MIGRATING WRN UPR TROF AND INCREASING WLY MID LVL FLOW...EXITING INTO THE OH VLY BY LATE THURS/ERLY FRI. I HAVE HEDGED TWDS THE COOLER GUID MAX TMPS OVR THE NEXT TWO DAYS... WHILE TRYING TO BLEND WITH NEIGHBORING OFFICES...MABE NOT COOL ENUF BUT THIS WILL BE HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON ANY INSOLATION. MINS ARE ON THE WARMER END OF GUID. ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS WERE MADE TO THE EXTDD PD FROM SAT-TUE. GFS IS BECOMING MORE VARIABLE EACH RUN...SOME OF WHICH APPEARS TO BE RESULTING FROM CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK. THE ECMWF AND NCEP MAN GUID IS SHOWING MORE CONTINUITY AND BLENDS REASONABLY WELL AT THESE RANGES WITH THE PRVS FCST. && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .MO...NONE. .IL...NONE. && GLASS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 300 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 2004 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-091200- ADAMS IL-AUDRAIN-BOND IL-BOONE-BROWN-CALHOUN IL-CALLAWAY-CLINTON IL- COLE-CRAWFORD-FAYETTE IL-FRANKLIN-GASCONADE-GREENE IL-IRON-JEFFERSON- JERSEY IL-KNOX-LEWIS-LINCOLN-MACOUPIN IL-MADISON-MADISON IL-MARION- MARION IL-MONITEAU-MONROE-MONROE IL-MONTGOMERY-MONTGOMERY IL-OSAGE- PIKE-PIKE IL-RALLS-RANDOLPH IL-REYNOLDS-SHELBY-ST CHARLES- ST CLAIR IL-ST FRANCOIS-ST LOUIS-ST LOUIS CITY-STE GENEVIEVE-WARREN- WASHINGTON-WASHINGTON IL- 300 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN MISSOURI AS WELL AS SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. HOWEVER...NONE OF THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY FOR WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY FROM THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THIS PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORM THREAT IS DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF AN UNSTABLE SUMMERTIME AIRMASS...AND A SERIES OF WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED FOR TONIGHT.
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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.