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Fire Weather Watch 1, NWS St. Louis, MO

October 14, 20118 counties in Missouri; Randolph County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this fire weather watch at Oct 14, 2011, 4:05 PM CDT for 8 counties in Missouri; Randolph County, Illinois. It took effect at Oct 16, 2011, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 14, 2011, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 16, 2011, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 16, 2011, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO

Counties Randolph County, IL, Crawford County, MO, Dent County, MO, Iron County, MO, Madison County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Washington County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 330 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2011-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2011-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -67 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.