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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 518, NWS St. Louis, MO

September 11, 2006Callaway County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2006, 5:10 PM CDT for Callaway County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 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: Sep 11, 2006, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 2006, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 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), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 271 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: 16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Sep 11, 1:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 1:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 11, 3:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
309 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2006

ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027-
034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-121200-
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-
309 PM CDT MON SEP 11 2006

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A STORM SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH THE MID MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY
WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION
THROUGH TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF
THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH MAY PRODUCE UP TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH DURING EVENING HOURS...MAINLY ALONG AND
NORTH OF A STEELVILLE MISSOURI TO VANDALIA ILLINOIS LINE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.

BYRD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 11, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion	46 min
Sep 11, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Adams, Brown	29 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.