Alert archive / Missouri / Freeze Watches in 2008
Freeze Watch 2, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this freeze watch at Oct 25, 2008, 3:50 PM CDT for 18 counties in Missouri; 14 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Oct 28, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2008, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 28, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2008, 3:16 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
All 32 counties
Bond County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Greene County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marion County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Washington County, IL, City of Saint Louis, MO, Cole County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Iron County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Madison County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Osage County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Warren County, MO, Washington County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 347 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
- 643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch 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 freeze watch went out at Oct 25, 3:20 PM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 3:20 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 25, 3:30 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 330 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 2008 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-261200- GREENE IL-MACOUPIN IL-MONTGOMERY IL-BOND IL-FAYETTE IL-CLINTON IL- MARION IL-WASHINGTON IL-RANDOLPH IL-ADAMS IL-BROWN IL-PIKE IL- CALHOUN IL-JERSEY IL-MADISON IL-ST. CLAIR IL-MONROE IL-KNOX-LEWIS- SHELBY-MARION-MONROE-RALLS-PIKE-BOONE-AUDRAIN-MONITEAU-COLE-OSAGE- CALLAWAY-MONTGOMERY-LINCOLN-GASCONADE-WARREN-ST. CHARLES-FRANKLIN- ST. LOUIS-ST. LOUIS CITY-JEFFERSON-CRAWFORD-WASHINGTON- ST. FRANCOIS-STE. GENEVIEVE-IRON-MADISON-REYNOLDS- 330 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BECOME STRONG AND GUSTY BEHIND THE COLD FRONT SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. LOOK FOR SUSTAINED SPEEDS FROM AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI AND WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS...WHERE A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM 12 PM TO 9 PM SUNDAY. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION...PLEASE REFER TO THE ADVISORY PRODUCT. ELSEWHERE...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BLOW AT SUSTAINED SPEEDS OF AROUND 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS FROM 30 TO 40 MPH. THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON WILL AFFECT THE REGION BEGINNING SUNDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. THE RESULT WILL BE A HEIGHTENED POTENTIAL FOR SUB FREEZING TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE BI-STATE REGION CULMINATING IN A POSSIBLE HARD FREEZE EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. AS A RESULT...FREEZE WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF THE REGION FOR EARLY MONDAY AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION...PLEASE REFER TO THE WATCH PRODUCTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE)... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LSX/?N=HWO1 TES
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 3:50 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 14 more | 12 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:50 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LSX | Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Pike, Ralls and 1 more | 29 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Watches in Missouri, 2008Freeze Watches in Illinois, 2008Every freeze watch in 2008
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.