Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 30, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 3:27 PM CDT for Adams County, Illinois; Lewis County, Marion County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 min. 5 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 30, 2004, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Adams County, IL, Lewis County, MO, Marion County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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 30, 3:37 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | La Grange, MO | FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED TO SHERIFF BY PUBLIC. |
| May 30, 3:40 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Quincy, IL | WALL CLOUD REPORTED JUST EAST OF QUINCY |
| May 30, 3:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Quincy, IL | NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN IN THE CITY OF QUINCY...REPORTED BY COUNTY 911. |
| May 30, 3:40 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 2 N Taylor, MO | WIND GUST OF 62 KT...71 MPH...OBSERVED. |
| May 30, 4:00 PM CDT | HAIL 0.25 | Quincy, IL |
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 30, 10:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 1629 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
966
WFUS53 KLSX 302027
TORLSX
ILC001-MOC111-127-302115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
327 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN LEWIS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
NORTHERN MARION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
* AT 327 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR TAYLOR. THE STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
TIME
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MENDON
CHATTON
GOLDEN
LA PRAIRIE
THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.
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.
THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
LAT...LON 4000 9169 3984 9159 4004 9091 4020 9099
4022 9153
$$
CVKING/FGThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Madison, Montgomery | 41 min |
| May 30, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown | 39 min |
| May 30, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Clinton, Saint Clair | 51 min |
| May 30, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Bond, Madison, Montgomery | 47 min |
| May 30, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Bond, Clinton, Madison, Saint Clair | 40 min |
| May 30, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 28 min |
| May 30, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Fayette, Montgomery | 46 min |
| May 30, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Brown | 28 min |
| May 30, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Fayette, Montgomery | 42 min |
| May 30, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Monroe | 39 min |
| May 30, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Marion | 50 min |
| May 30, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 36 min |
| May 30, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 41 min |
| May 30, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Fayette | 31 min |
| May 30, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Macoupin, Montgomery | 25 min |
| May 30, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 46 min |
| May 30, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Marion | 39 min |
| May 30, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 41 min |
| May 30, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Shelby | 42 min |
| May 30, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Osage | 39 min |
| May 30, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 39 min |
| May 30, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Osage | 49 min |
| May 30, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion | 41 min |
| May 30, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds, Washington | 62 min |
| May 30, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 39 min |
| May 30, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Monroe | 50 min |
| May 30, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Moniteau | 49 min |
| May 30, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 42 min |
| May 30, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Warren | 53 min |
| May 30, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 49 min |
| May 30, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Franklin | 46 min |
| May 30, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 50 min |
| May 30, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Washington | 47 min |
| May 30, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Franklin | 48 min |
| May 30, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 45 min |
| May 30, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 52 min |
| May 30, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 42 min |
| May 30, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 35 min |
| May 30, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 48 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.