Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 21, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 6:46 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Warren County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min. 3 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 27, 2004, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lincoln County, MO, Warren County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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 27, 6:46 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Jonesburg, MO | ROOF RIPPED OFF A STORE...POSSIBLY FROM TORNADO THAT WAS REPORTED EARLIER. |
| May 27, 6:46 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Jonesburg, MO | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN...COULD BE RELATED TO PREVIOUSLY REPORTED TORNADO. |
| May 27, 6:58 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Wright City, MO |
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 27, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 577 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLSX 272346 TORLSX MOC113-219-280030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 646 PM CDT THU MAY 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 646 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO IN JONESBURG. RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... TRUESDALE WARRENTON WRIGHT CITY FORISTELL MARTHASVILLE DUTZOW 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 3910 9123 3876 9142 3858 9099 3912 9089 $$ CVKING/FG
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Louis | 44 min |
| May 26, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 58 min |
| May 26, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Francois | 61 min |
| May 26, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 64 min |
| May 27, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 52 min |
| May 27, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 48 min |
| May 27, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 33 min |
| May 27, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Shelby | 62 min |
| May 27, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone | 67 min |
| May 27, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike, Ralls | 50 min |
| May 27, 5:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Pike, Ralls | 4 hr |
| May 27, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 15 min |
| May 27, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Montgomery | 41 min |
| May 27, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 51 min |
| May 27, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 51 min |
| May 27, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 50 min |
| May 27, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 46 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.