Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 9, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2005, 3:12 PM CDT for Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 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
- May 11, 2005, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2005, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Callaway County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 11, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 265 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLSX 112013 TORLSX MOC027-112100- /O.NEW.KLSX.TO.W.0009.050511T2012Z-050511T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 312 PM CDT WED MAY 11 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 307 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER NEW BLOOMFIELD... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FULTON REFORM WILLIAMSBURG THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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 3878 9215 3858 9201 3874 9165 3905 9179 $$ TRUETT
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KLSX 112040
SVSLSX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
339 PM CDT WED MAY 11 2005
MOC027-112100-
/O.CON.KLSX.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-050511T2100Z/
CALLAWAY MO-
339 PM CDT WED MAY 11 2005
...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR CALLAWAY
COUNTY...
AT 337 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF FULTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10
MPH. A SECOND STORM...POSSIBLY PRODUCING A TORNADO...WAS LOCATED
NEAR MILLERSBURG...ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
FULTON...REFORM...AND KINGDOM CITY.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3878 9215 3858 9201 3874 9165 3906 9164
3906 9212
$$
TRUETTThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 51 min |
| May 11, 2:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Boone | 44 min |
| May 11, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway | 40 min |
| May 11, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway | 50 min |
| May 11, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Francois, Washington | 45 min |
| May 11, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway | 43 min |
| May 11, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 44 min |
| May 11, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Cole, Moniteau | 39 min |
| May 11, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Saint Francois, Washington | 45 min |
| May 11, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 53 min |
| May 11, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 48 min |
| May 11, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Callaway, Montgomery | 50 min |
| May 11, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Osage | 43 min |
| May 11, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Francois | 21 min |
| May 11, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 26 min |
| May 11, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 27 min |
| May 11, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade | 16 min |
| May 11, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 31 min |
| May 11, 5:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Boone | 5 hr |
| May 11, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Montgomery | 38 min |
| May 11, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone | 47 min |
| May 11, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Warren | 42 min |
| May 11, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 49 min |
| May 11, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 51 min |
| May 11, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.