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Tornado Warning 28, NWS St. Louis, MO

October 2, 2007Lincoln County, Warren County, Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Oct 2, 2007, 7:07 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Warren County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 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: Oct 2, 2007, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Oct 2, 2007, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Lincoln County, MO, Warren County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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
Oct 2, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Oct 2, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 306 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLSX 030006
TORLSX
MOC113-219-030045-
/O.NEW.KLSX.TO.W.0028.071003T0007Z-071003T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
707 PM CDT TUE OCT 2 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  WARRENTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HAWK POINT...
  TROY...
  MOSCOW MILLS...

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.

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AT NIGHT...SO DO NOT WAIT. TAKE COVER
NOW

LAT...LON 3892 9079 3891 9081 3888 9081 3889 9087
      3888 9093 3889 9096 3883 9097 3880 9126
      3892 9128 3908 9084
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 249DEG 27KT 3888 9117

$$

TES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 2, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LSX	Lincoln	43 min
Oct 2, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lincoln	44 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.