Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 53, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 2004, 2:16 PM CDT for Callaway County, Montgomery County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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
- Aug 27, 2004, 2:16 PM CDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2004, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Callaway County, MO, Montgomery County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 9:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 1722 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLSX 271916 TORLSX MOC027-139-272000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 217 PM CDT FRI AUG 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 217 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR REFORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WILLIAMSBURG MINEOLA AMERICUS DANVILLE BIG SPRING NEW FLORENCE HIGH HILL 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. LAT...LON 3904 9194 3868 9190 3872 9142 3915 9130 $$ GLASS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Pike, Ralls and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Warren | 44 min |
| Aug 27, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 25 min |
| Aug 27, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Gasconade, Osage | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Warren | 45 min |
| Aug 27, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 31 min |
| Aug 27, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.