Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 54, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 2004, 2:46 PM CDT for Warren 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, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Warren County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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 |
| Aug 27, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 2178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KLSX 271946
TORLSX
MOC219-272030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
246 PM CDT FRI AUG 27 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* AT 246 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
HOLSTEIN. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A
TORNADO AT ANY TIME
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WARRENTON
HOLSTEIN
TRUESDALE
WRIGHT CITY
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 3887 9140 3872 9145 3860 9099 3886 9099
3895 9122
$$
FGThe 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, 2:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Callaway, Montgomery | 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.