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Tornado Warning 113, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2006, 6:01 PM CDT for Saint Clair County, Illinois. It was in force for 24 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
- Sep 22, 2006, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2006, 6:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 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), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 571 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 612 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 222302 TORLSX ILC163-222345- /O.NEW.KLSX.TO.W.0113.060922T2301Z-060922T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 601 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW ATHENS...OR ABOUT NEAR RED BUD...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NEW ATHENS... MARISSA... LENZBURG... 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS AND EASTERN MISSOURI. LAT...LON 3836 9008 3818 9001 3823 8972 3843 8971 $$ GKS
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KLSX 222325 SVSLSX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 625 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006 ILC163-222335- /O.CAN.KLSX.TO.W.0113.000000T0000Z-060922T2345Z/ ST. CLAIR IL- 625 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN ST. CLAIR COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...AND A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM. LAT...LON 3836 9008 3818 9001 3823 8972 3843 8971 $$ GKS
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown | 42 min |
| Sep 22, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 47 min |
| Sep 22, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 30 min |
| Sep 22, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 28 min |
| Sep 22, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Monroe | 41 min |
| Sep 22, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Brown, Pike | 26 min |
| Sep 22, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Clair, Washington | 49 min |
| Sep 22, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Clair | 46 min |
| Sep 22, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Monroe | 47 min |
| Sep 22, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 52 min |
| Sep 22, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Washington | 35 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.