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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS St. Louis, MO

August 10, 2005Saint Clair County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2005, 4:58 PM CDT for Saint Clair County, Illinois. It was in force for 32 min. 4 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: Aug 10, 2005, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Saint Clair County, IL

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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
Aug 10, 5:00 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Ne Dupo, IL	50 FEET TALL TREES BLOWN DOWN.
Aug 10, 5:15 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Nw Belleville, IL	A FEW LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN 2 MILES WEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF ILLINOIS 15 AND INTERSTAE 255...NEAR THE OUR LADY OF THE SNOW SHRINE
Aug 10, 5:15 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	2 Nw Belleville, IL
Aug 10, 5:20 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Cahokia, IL	NUMEROUS 3-5 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN. A LARGE METAL SIGN BLOWN DOWN ON CARS AT KING AUTO SALES.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched 3 storm reports to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 2 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 488 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 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 
WUUS53 KLSX 102158
SVRLSX
ILC163-102230-
/O.NEW.KLSX.SV.W.0192.050810T2158Z-050810T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
458 PM CDT WED AUG 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 453 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  DUPO...AND MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MILLSTADT
  BELLEVILLE
  SWANSEA
  SMITHTON

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3865 9014 3853 9027 3834 9006 3843 8990
      3866 8993

$$

TRUETT

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 10, 2:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 2:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
246 PM CDT WED AUG 10 2005

.DISCUSSION...

...HEAT TO CONTINUE UNTIL COLD FRONT ARRIVES ON SATURDAY...

COLD FRONT HAS LOSS ITS SOUTHWARD PUSH AND ESSENTIALLY HAS STALLED
ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...ALLOWING
TEMPERATURES TO HEAT INTO THE UPPER 90S...AND EVEN 100 IN A FEW
PLACES THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
DEVELOPED ALONG COLD FRONT ACROSS NORTH AND IN WEAK SURFACE
CONVERGENCE FIELD LOCATED ACROSS EASTERN OZARKS AND EAST CENTRAL
MISSOURI. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING.

SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SOME WARM AIR ADVECTION PRECIPITATION TONIGHT AS
SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW BEGINS...ALTHOUGH THE BIG STORY LOOKS TO BE THE
HEAT...AS ANOTHER HOT ONE IS ON TAP FOR THURSDAY ACROSS THE WESTERN
HALF OF THE CWA...WITH TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN
ACROSS DROUGHT STRICKEN CENTRAL MISSOURI. EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER WAA CLOUDS AND ISOLATED -TSRA COULD HELP KEEP TEMPERATURES
FROM GETTING OUT OF HAND.

FRIDAY AGAIN LOOKS HOT WITH STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW...SHOULD SEE
THE TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT SPREAD FURTHER EAST...TOWARD THE QUINCY AND
ST. LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREAS.

COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE CWA ON SATURDAY AND PROVIDES SOME MUCH
NEEDED RELIEF WITH CLOUDS AND A CHANCE OF SOME THUNDERSTORMS.

IN THE EXTENDED THE AFOREMENTIONED COLD FRONT MEANDERS NORTH AND
SOUTH THROUGH OUR CWA AS SEVERAL AREAS OF LOW PRESSURE ARE FORECAST
TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND HEAD EAST INTO THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY. THIS SHOULD INCREASE OUR RAIN CHANCES FOR
THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK AND KEEP TEMPERATURES AT OR SLIGHTLY
BELOW NORMAL. DETAILS SUCH AS EXACT FRONT LOCATION...PRECIPITATION
TIMING AND TEMPERATURE TRENDS ARE DIFFICULT TO FORECAST WITH
PRECISION THIS FAR OUT...SO HAVE BLANKETED AREA WITH CHANCE POPS AND
USED MODEL GUIDANCE FOR FRONT LOCATION AND SENSIBLE WEATHER DETAILS
THROUGH THE EXTENDED.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
ST LOUIS        74  98  75  99 /  20  20  10  10
QUINCY          70  93  71  99 /  30  30  10  20
COLUMBIA        72 100  71  99 /  20  10  10  10
JEFFERSON CITY  72  99  71  99 /  20  10  10  10
SALEM           71  93  70  94 /  30  30  10  10
FARMINGTON      71  94  71  94 /  20  10  10  10

&&

.LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...NONE.
IL...NONE.
&&

CVKING

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 12:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1250 PM CDT WED AUG 10 2005

ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027-
034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-111100-
ADAMS IL-AUDRAIN-BOND IL-BOONE-BROWN-CALHOUN IL-CALLAWAY-CLINTON IL-
COLE-CRAWFORD-FAYETTE IL-FRANKLIN-GASCONADE-GREENE IL-IRON-JEFFERSON-
JERSEY IL-KNOX-LEWIS-LINCOLN-MACOUPIN IL-MADISON-MADISON IL-MARION-
MARION IL-MONITEAU-MONROE-MONROE IL-MONTGOMERY-MONTGOMERY IL-OSAGE-
PIKE-PIKE IL-RALLS-RANDOLPH IL-REYNOLDS-SHELBY-ST CHARLES-
ST CLAIR IL-ST FRANCOIS-ST LOUIS-ST LOUIS CITY-STE GENEVIEVE-WARREN-
WASHINGTON-WASHINGTON IL-
1250 PM CDT WED AUG 10 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND
EASTERN MISSOURI...AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
ILLINOIS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION
THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING.  ALTHOUGH THE STORMS
WILL BE SPOTTY...A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE
BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS.

IN ADDITION...THIS AFTERNOONS HOT CONDITIONS WILL BE PUSHING THE
ACTUAL TEMPERATURE OR THE HEAT INDEX TO AROUND THE 100 DEGREE
MARK...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THREATENING THE AREA ON THURSDAY.
THERE WILL BE A SOMEWHAT BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
WEEKEND AND INTO THE START OF NEXT WEEK AS A COLD FRONT STALLS OUT
OVER THE CENTRAL U.S.

HOT WEATHER WILL ALSO PERSIST FOR THE REST OF THIS WORK WEEK...WITH
HIGHS MID 9OS TO AROUND 100 EXPECTED ON BOTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.

TRUETT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery	44 min
Aug 10, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Fayette, Marion	40 min
Aug 10, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Monroe	40 min
Aug 10, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	40 min
Aug 10, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Clair	47 min
Aug 10, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison	30 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.