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Freezing Rain Advisory 7, NWS St. Louis, MO

December 11, 200714 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 11, 2007, 3:14 PM CST for 14 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Dec 11, 2007, 7:00 PM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 11, 2007, 3:14 PM CST (21:14 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 11, 2007, 7:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 12, 2007, 4:00 AM CST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO

Counties Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Greene County, IL, Pike County, IL, Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Cole County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Marion County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Shelby County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 340 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2007-12-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2007-12-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 416 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
416 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
319 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 freezing rain advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 10, 3:31 PM CST, 23 hours 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 11, 7:23 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryLSXBoone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade and 15 more6 hr

Nearby

Freezing Rain Advisories in Missouri, 2007Freezing Rain Advisories in Illinois, 2007Every freezing rain advisory in 2007

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.