Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 14, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2004, 6:46 PM CDT for Crawford County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min. 4 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 26, 2004, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crawford County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Cuba, MO | TREES DOWN HWY O AT HWY 19. TREES DOWN AT OAK HILL AND HWY 19. |
| May 26, 7:00 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Steelville, MO | TREE ON TRANSFORMER AT CEDAR LANE |
| May 26, 7:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Cuba, MO | 2 FT DIAMETER TREE DOWNED...FALLEN TREE LIMBS OF 6 TO 8 IN. |
| May 26, 7:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Cuba, MO | TREES DOWNED |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 1235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
381
WFUS53 KLSX 262346
TORLSX
MOC055-270030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
646 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 646 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES NORTH OF ROSATI.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT
ANY TIME
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BOURBON
LEASBURG
ST. CLOUD
STEELVILLE
MERAMEC SPRING PARK
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.
LAT...LON 3821 9164 3803 9160 3795 9151 3794 9112
3818 9110
$$
JP/RPThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 41 min |
| May 26, 7:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike | 46 min |
| May 26, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Gasconade | 46 min |
| May 26, 8:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 44 min |
| May 26, 8:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 50 min |
| May 26, 8:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 39 min |
| May 26, 9:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 39 min |
| May 26, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Gasconade | 49 min |
| May 26, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson, Washington | 44 min |
| May 26, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Sainte Genevieve | 50 min |
| May 26, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison, Saint Francois | 64 min |
| May 26, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 24 min |
| May 26, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 14 min |
| May 26, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole, Osage | 46 min |
| May 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 46 min |
| May 26, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery, Warren | 49 min |
| May 26, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Pike | 26 min |
| May 26, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Franklin, Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 45 min |
| May 26, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 39 min |
| May 26, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 50 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.