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Tornado Warning 63, NWS St. Louis, MO

October 18, 2004Madison County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2004, 4:28 PM CDT for Madison County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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
Oct 18, 2004, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired
Oct 18, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Madison County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 18, 4:55 PM CDTTORNADOFredericktown, MOTORNADO SIGHTED ON THE GROUND 1 NORTH OF THE HWY 72/67 INTERSECTION
Oct 18, 5:10 PM CDTTORNADOCatherine Place, MORADIO STATION IN FREDERICKTOWN REPORTED TORNADO NEAR CATHERINE PLACE...WITNESSES REPORTED SEEING SHEET METAL BEING THROWN INTO THE AIR.
Oct 18, 5:10 PM CDTTORNADON Fredericktown, MOTRAILER PARK DAMAGED...NUMEROUS TREES DOWN...HWY-H BLOCKED BY TREES

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 18, 12:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 302 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2004-10-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1504 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2004-10-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 390 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1504 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
390 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
482 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.3
Supercell composite
16.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KLSX 182128
TORLSX
MOC123-182215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
428 PM CDT MON OCT 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 428 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 14 MILES WEST OF CATHERINE
  PLACE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A
  TORNADO AT ANY TIME

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CATHERINE PLACE
  JUNCTION CITY
  FREDERICKTOWN
  MINE LA MOTTE
  MARQUAND

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 3759 9055 3760 9053 3764 9053 3764 9016
      3755 9016 3754 9015 3750 9016 3732 9016
      3731 9055

$$

CVKING

The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 18, 9:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSaint Louis, City of Saint Louis26 min
Oct 18, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin, Gasconade42 min
Oct 18, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXGasconade, Osage46 min
Oct 18, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCrawford, Washington41 min
Oct 18, 3:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXGasconade, Osage43 min
Oct 18, 3:28 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXIron47 min
Oct 18, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXReynolds44 min
Oct 18, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXWashington41 min
Oct 18, 3:46 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXFranklin44 min
Oct 18, 3:52 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXWashington38 min
Oct 18, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXReynolds47 min
Oct 18, 4:10 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSaint Francois50 min
Oct 18, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXIron46 min
Oct 18, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSainte Genevieve57 min
Oct 18, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXFranklin, Jefferson46 min
Oct 18, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMadison33 min
Oct 18, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXJefferson, Sainte Genevieve44 min
Oct 18, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSainte Genevieve29 min
Oct 18, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXSainte Genevieve44 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.