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Tornado Warning 4, NWS St. Louis, MO

January 7, 20085 counties in Missouri

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jan 7, 2008, 4:14 PM CST for 5 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 7, 2008, 4:14 PM CST (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Jan 7, 2008, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS St. Louis, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Audrain County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 7, 4:17 PM CST	FUNNEL CLOUD	5 Ne Auxvasse, MO	ALONG HIGHWAY 54.
Jan 7, 4:40 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Laddonia, MO	SMALL TREE LIMBS DOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 7, 1:52 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	146 days

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 266 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: 383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 331 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLSX 072214
TORLSX
MOC007-027-139-163-173-072300-
/O.NEW.KLSX.TO.W.0004.080107T2214Z-080107T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
414 PM CST MON JAN 7 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN AUDRAIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
  NORTHERN CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
  NORTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI
  SOUTHERN RALLS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 500 PM CST

* AT 411 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG ROTATION ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEXICO TO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  MARTINSBURG TO AUXVASSE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF MEXICO TO 7 MILES EAST OF MEXICO TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF
  MEXICO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LADDONIA...
  MARTINSBURG...
  FARBER...
  VANDALIA...
  SPENCERBURG...
  CURRYVILLE...
  FRANKFORD...
  NEW HARTFORD...
  BOWLING GREEN...

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.

LAT...LON 3949 9107 3931 9093 3898 9194 3913 9185
      3925 9193 3935 9175 3934 9173 3936 9172
      3961 9125
TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 240DEG 48KT 3927 9177 3918 9170
          3905 9184

$$

BYRD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 7, 2:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lewis	26 min
Jan 7, 2:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Ralls	36 min
Jan 7, 3:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Boone, Moniteau	42 min
Jan 7, 3:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Marion, Ralls	31 min
Jan 7, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Boone, Cole, Moniteau	45 min
Jan 7, 3:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Audrain, Boone, Callaway	50 min
Jan 7, 4:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Audrain, Boone, Callaway	51 min
Jan 7, 4:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Callaway, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Warren	48 min
Jan 7, 4:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Pike	50 min
Jan 7, 5:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LSX	Lincoln, Pike	46 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.