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Tornado Warning 73, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2008, 8:01 PM CDT for Lewis County, Marion County, Missouri; Adams County, Illinois. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 21, 2008, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2008, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Adams County, IL, Lewis County, MO, Marion County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 8:50 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Maywood, MO | HAIL REPORTED AT HIGHWAY 6 AND ROUTE A |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1280 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLSX 220101 TORLSX ILC001-MOC111-127-220145- /O.NEW.KLSX.TO.W.0073.080722T0101Z-080722T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 801 PM CDT MON JUL 21 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LEWIS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI NORTHERN MARION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI WESTERN ADAMS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 757 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR EWING...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 17 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAYWOOD... TAYLOR... THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4002 9141 3986 9150 4000 9178 4008 9175 TIME...MOT...LOC 0101Z 297DEG 15KT 4001 9169 $$ TES
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 52 min |
| Jul 21, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 66 min |
| Jul 21, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Knox, Shelby | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Ralls, Shelby | 44 min |
| Jul 21, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis | 6 hr |
| Jul 21, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Shelby | 44 min |
| Jul 21, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Marion, Monroe, Pike, Ralls | 44 min |
| Jul 21, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Monroe, Ralls | 21 min |
| Jul 21, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Monroe | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 42 min |
| Jul 22, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 2:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LSX | Audrain, Monroe, Montgomery, Ralls | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 3:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Cole, Osage | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 4:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole, Osage | 22 min |
| Jul 22, 6:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LSX | Callaway, Osage, Saint Charles | 30 days |
| Jul 22, 7:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Boone | 4 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Cole | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 9:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Cole, Osage | 45 min |
| Jul 22, 11:18 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Boone | 13 hr |
| Jul 21, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey | 50 min |
| Jul 21, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 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.