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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2009, 9:03 AM CDT for Crawford County, Iron County, Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2009, 9:03 AM CDT (14:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2009, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crawford County, MO, Iron County, MO, Reynolds County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 2332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 18.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 6:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 6:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 629 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 .DISCUSSION... /440 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009/ THE MAIN WX STORY THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WILL BE THE SEVERAL ROUNDS OF TSRA...WITH THE POTENTIAL NOT ONLY FOR SEVERE BUT ALSO FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING. ONCE THIS PASSES BY MID WEEK...THEN LOOK FOR SUMMERTIME HEAT AND HUMIDITY TO ENTER OUR REGION EVEN IF FOR A RELATIVELY BRIEF PERIOD. CLASSIC SETUP FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WITH AN UNDERLYING THEME ALSO FOR SEVERE WX POTENTIAL NOW IN PLACE ACROSS THE MID MS VALLEY WITH A STALLED OUT SFC FRONTAL BOUNDARY ATTM EXPECTED TO SLOWLY DRIFT NEWD AS A WRMFNT LATER TONIGHT AND INTO TUESDAY. A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL INTERACT WITH THE VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR ALOFT NEAR THE FRONT AND CREATE PRIMARILY TWO MAIN EPISODES FOR TSRA. THE FIRST IS NOW ONGOING AND WILL CONTINUE THRU AT LEAST EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH LINGERING SCT CONVECTION CONTINUING INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. AFTER A BRIEF RESPITE FROM THE WX...LOOK FOR ROUND TWO TO FIRE UP BY LATE EVENING EITHER OVER CNTRL AND WRN MO AND THEN QUICKLY SPREAD TO MUCH OF THE REST OF THE FA OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. THIS WILL THEN CONTINUE THRU AT LEAST TUESDAY MORNING... BECOMING MORE SCT IN COVERAGE HEADING INTO TUESDAY AFTN/EVENING. HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL IS MAIN CONCERN WITH THIS SETUP...AND AFTER SOME CONSIDERATION HAVE DECIDED TO HOLD OFF ON ANY FFA THIS PACKAGE. CURRENTLY FEEL THAT WITH MODERATELY HI FFG VALUES OVER MUCH OF THE FFA THAT THIS EPISODE TODAY WILL INSTEAD BE A /TABLE SETTER/ FOR A POTENTIALLY MORE WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOOD EVENT LATER TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING WITH ROUND TWO. GIVEN THE COMPLEXITIES INVOLVED IN TRYING TO NAIL DOWN SPECIFICS WITH MCS EVENTS...WILL DEFER TO THE DAY SHIFT FOR A POSSIBLE FFA ISSUANCE AFTER WE GET A BETTER HANDLE ON NOT ONLY WHAT FALLS TODAY BUT WHERE ROUND TWO WILL GET GOING TONIGHT. ONCE WE GET THE RAIN ALL OUT OF HERE...THE HEAT WILL THEN BUILD AS H500 RIDGE GETS ITS OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD IN AS NRN CONUS TROF PUSHES OFF TO THE E. BY THURSDAY...A PRETTY GOOD SETUP FOR VERY WARM TEMPS WITH SWLY SFC WINDS IN THE WAKE OF THE WRMFNT PUSHING N...A STRONG MID LEVEL CAP WHERE H700 TEMPS ARE AROUND +13C WHICH SHOULD EFFECTIVELY PREVENT MUCH IN THE WAY OF ANY PCPN...AND DRY RH VALUES THRU THE COLUMN. H850 TEMPS WILL BE AROUND +23 TO +24C BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON...AND THIS ALL POINTS TO WIDESPREAD MAX TEMPS IN THE MID 90S WITH STL CITY FLIRTING WITH UPPER 90S. COMBINED WITH THE HUMIDITY...HEAT INDICES LIKELY WILL EXCEED 100F FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR AND PERHAPS 105F IN STL CITY. STAY TUNED. TES && .AVIATION... /611 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009/ FOR THE 12Z TAFS...SHRA/TSRA SPREAD ACROSS MUCH OF MO THIS MORNING WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE TAF SITES FOR MUCH THE MORNING. THESE TSRA ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE SE BY THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS SHOULD BE DRY WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF TSRA MOVING INTO THE REGION AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. FORECAST SOUNDINGS WOULD SUGGEST LOW MVFR TO IFR CIGS POSSIBLE AT COU...STL AND SUS AHEAD OF TSRA. HAVE ONLY SCT MENTIONED ATTM DUE TO UNCERTAINTIES. TILLY && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. IL...NONE. && WFO LSX
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 4:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 400 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-161200- 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- 400 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI AS WELL AS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERAL ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED...PRIMARILY THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN FROM LATE THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH COULD LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A CONCERN. SEE THE HYDROLOGIC OUTLOOK PRODUCT FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED ON TUESDAY. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH COULD LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A CONCERN AS 2 TO LOCALLY 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL APPEAR LIKELY ACROSS THE AREA DURING THIS PERIOD. SEE THE HYDROLOGIC OUTLOOK PRODUCT FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY. ADDITIONALLY...HEAT INDEX READINGS BETWEEN 100 AND 105 DEGREES WILL BE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE MAINLY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI AS WELL AS THE ST. LOUIS METRO AREA. && FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION SEE OUR WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE)... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LSX/?N=HWO1 TES
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 15, 7:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jun 15, 7:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
757 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0735 AM FLASH FLOOD 4 WSW AUXVASSE 39.00N 91.96W
06/15/2009 CALLAWAY MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
CORNER OF COUNTY ROADS 260 AND 245 FLOODED.
&&
EVENT NUMBER LSX0902343
SIPPRELLLocal storm report, Jun 15, 7:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
758 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0735 AM FLASH FLOOD 8 S MEXICO 39.05N 91.87W
06/15/2009 CALLAWAY MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
HIGHWAY 54 FLOODED ... ROAD IS NOT CLOSED BUT REPORTED
TO BE IMPASSABLE.
&&
EVENT NUMBER LSX0902344
SIPPRELLLocal storm report, Jun 15, 8:36 AM CDT, 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
836 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0745 AM FLASH FLOOD 1 E JONESBURG 38.85N 91.29W
06/15/2009 MONTGOMERY MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORTS FROM MODOT AS WELL ... I 70 AND ADJACENT OUTER
ROADS AT MONTGOMERY WARREN COUNTY LINES UNDER SEVERAL
FEET OF WATER AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS ... REPORTS OF CARS
INUNDATED AND ABANDONED ALONGSIDE ROADWAYS.
&&
EVENT NUMBER LSX0902345
SIPPRELLLocal storm report, Jun 15, 8:38 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
838 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0810 AM FLOOD WARRENTON 38.82N 91.14W
06/15/2009 WARREN MO EMERGENCY MNGR
HIGHWAY U AT BOONESLICK ROAD FLOODED
&&
EVENT NUMBER LSX0902346
FGLASSLocal storm report, Jun 15, 8:40 AM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
840 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2009
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0810 AM FLOOD 3 S WARRENTON 38.78N 91.14W
06/15/2009 WARREN MO EMERGENCY MNGR
HIGHWAY 47 SOUTH FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE IN SPOTS
&&
EVENT NUMBER LSX0902347
FGLASSThe office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Callaway | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 7:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Montgomery, Warren | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 8:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LSX | Boone | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 8:54 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds, Saint Francois | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 11:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford, Iron, Washington | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 12:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LSX | Crawford | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 25 min |
| Jun 15, 12:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 3:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 23 more | 20 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:53 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 51 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 6 hr |
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.