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Tornado Warning 37, NWS St. Louis, MO

January 12, 2005Lincoln County, Pike County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jan 12, 2005, 7:11 PM CST for Lincoln County, Pike County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 12, 2005, 7:11 PM CST (01:11 UTC)
Expired: Jan 12, 2005, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lincoln County, MO, Pike County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 12, 3:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 170 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLSX 130111
TORLSX
MOC113-163-130200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
710 PM CST WED JAN 12 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 800 PM CST

* AT 708 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  EOLIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EOLIA

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS AND NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI. A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS.

LAT...LON 3914 9135 3900 9119 3920 9073 3944 9103

$$

GKS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 12, 6:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Montgomery	46 min
Jan 12, 6:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau	6 hr
Jan 12, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Pike	44 min
Jan 12, 7:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	43 min
Jan 12, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Franklin, Gasconade	44 min
Jan 12, 8:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Warren	38 min
Jan 12, 8:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	29 min
Jan 12, 9:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Crawford, Franklin, Washington	46 min
Jan 12, 10:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Saint Louis	40 min
Jan 13, 12:02 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LSX	Franklin	6 hr

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.