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Tornado Warning 8, NWS St. Louis, MO

May 24, 2004Ralls County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 10:35 PM CDT for Ralls County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 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 24, 2004, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ralls County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:36 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 24, 10:36 PM CDT	TORNADO	Rensselaer, MO
May 24, 10:40 PM CDT	TORNADO	1 E Rensselaer, MO
May 24, 10:45 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	New London, MO	SEVERAL TREES DOWN.

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 24, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 261 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 150 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -246 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLSX 250335
TORLSX
MOC173-250400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1035 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  RALLS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1035 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR RENSSELAER. THE STORM
  WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NEW LONDON
  ILASCO

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.

IT IS OFTEN IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE A TORNADO AT NIGHT. DO NOT WAIT...TAKE
COVER NOW

LAT...LON 3973 9163 3939 9173 3936 9153 3969 9129

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Shelby	66 min
May 24, 8:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Shelby	46 min
May 24, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Marion	65 min
May 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Shelby	45 min
May 24, 9:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Shelby	6 hr
May 24, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe	24 min
May 24, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Ralls	40 min
May 24, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe	49 min
May 24, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lewis	48 min
May 24, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion, Shelby	58 min
May 24, 10:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Marion	60 min
May 24, 10:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Marion	5 hr
May 24, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	39 min
May 24, 11:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	39 min
May 24, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Gasconade, Osage, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren and 1 more	62 min
May 25, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jefferson	47 min
May 25, 6:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Gasconade	48 min
May 25, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Callaway, Montgomery	52 min
May 25, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln, Saint Charles, Warren	65 min
May 25, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Charles	48 min
May 25, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	40 min
May 25, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Gasconade, Osage	47 min
May 25, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis	28 min
May 25, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Jefferson, Washington	59 min
May 25, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois	45 min
May 25, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford	33 min
May 25, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve	24 min
May 25, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Gasconade	58 min
May 25, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron	46 min
May 25, 4:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Jefferson	3 hr
May 25, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	34 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.