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Tornado Warning 29, NWS St. Louis, MO

November 15, 2005Reynolds County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2005, 3:48 AM CST for Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 20 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: Nov 15, 2005, 3:48 AM CST (09:48 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2005, 4:08 AM CST
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Reynolds County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLSX 150948
TORLSX
MOC179-151030-
/O.NEW.KLSX.TO.W.0029.051115T0948Z-051115T1030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
348 AM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 AM CST

* AT 346 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER REYNOLDS...MOVING
  EAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CENTERVILLE
LESTERVILLE
RURAL NORTHEASTERN REYNOLDS COUNTY

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3706 9096 3709 9096 3710 9101 3715 9104
      3721 9113 3725 9112 3726 9116 3749 9122
      3750 9131 3759 9131 3759 9131 3760 9078
      3718 9074 3713 9079 3705 9079

$$

CVKING

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLSX 150956
SVSLSX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
355 AM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

MOC179-151030-
/O.CON.KLSX.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-051115T1030Z/
REYNOLDS MO-
355 AM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 AM CST FOR REYNOLDS
COUNTY...

AT 351 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO OVER REYNOLDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
BLACK
CENTERVILLE
RURAL NORTHEASTERN REYNOLDS COUNTY.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3706 9096 3709 9096 3710 9101 3715 9104
      3721 9113 3725 9112 3726 9116 3749 9122
      3750 9131 3759 9131 3759 9131 3760 9078
      3718 9074 3713 9079 3705 9079

$$

CVKING

000 
WWUS53 KLSX 151008
SVSLSX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
408 AM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

MOC179-151018-
/O.CAN.KLSX.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-051115T1030Z/
REYNOLDS MO-
408 AM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR REYNOLDS COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER
APPEARED TO BE SEVERE.

LAT...LON 3706 9096 3709 9096 3710 9101 3715 9104
      3721 9113 3725 9112 3726 9116 3749 9122
      3750 9131 3759 9131 3759 9131 3760 9078
      3718 9074 3713 9079 3705 9079

$$

CVKING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 1:15 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Iron, Madison, Reynolds	6 hr
Nov 15, 4:15 AM CST	Freeze Warning	LSX	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 14 more	28 hr
Nov 15, 6:51 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Iron, Madison, Reynolds	3 hr
Nov 15, 11:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Iron, Washington	41 min
Nov 15, 12:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Sainte Genevieve	28 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.