Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 94, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2011, 3:32 PM CDT for Iron County, Reynolds County, Washington County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2011, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2011, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Iron County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Washington County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 11:09 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 2063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 500 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 405 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
912 WFUS53 KLSX 252032 TORLSX MOC093-179-221-252115- /O.NEW.KLSX.TO.W.0094.110525T2032Z-110525T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 332 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... IRON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... NORTH CENTRAL REYNOLDS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 330 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF BIXBY...OR 20 MILES WEST OF IRONTON...AND MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BELGRADE AND SHIRLEY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3795 9102 3788 9071 3755 9095 3759 9113 TIME...MOT...LOC 2032Z 197DEG 17KT 3765 9099 $$ BRITT
1 follow-up statement
314 WWUS53 KLSX 252046 SVSLSX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 346 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 MOC093-179-221-252115- /O.CON.KLSX.TO.W.0094.000000T0000Z-110525T2115Z/ IRON MO-REYNOLDS MO-WASHINGTON MO- 346 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN WASHINGTON... NORTH CENTRAL REYNOLDS AND IRON COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM CDT... AT 343 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLEVIEW...OR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POTOSI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BELGRADE AND SHIRLEY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3795 9102 3788 9071 3755 9095 3759 9113 TIME...MOT...LOC 2045Z 213DEG 35KT 3778 9087 $$ BRITT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau | 43 min |
| May 25, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Ralls | 40 min |
| May 25, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Marion, Pike, Ralls | 45 min |
| May 25, 2:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LSX | Boone, Cole, Moniteau | 6 hr |
| May 25, 3:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LSX | Audrain, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Ralls and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 25, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion, Shelby | 6 hr |
| May 25, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Lincoln, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren | 35 min |
| May 25, 4:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 22 min |
| May 25, 5:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Lewis | 3 days |
| May 25, 7:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Cole, Knox, Lewis, Marion and 5 more | 3 hr |
| May 25, 7:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Marion | 12 hr |
| May 25, 9:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Marion | 11 hr |
| May 25, 11:03 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole | 5 days |
| May 25, 11:03 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Franklin, Warren | 6 days |
| May 25, 11:03 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 20 days |
| May 25, 12:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Lewis | 13 days |
| May 25, 12:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Marion | 13 days |
| May 25, 12:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Marion | 13 days |
| May 25, 12:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Marion | 40 days |
| May 25, 12:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Ralls | 15 days |
| May 25, 12:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Pike | 40 days |
| May 25, 12:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Pike | 46 days |
| May 25, 12:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 43 days |
| May 25, 12:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 46 days |
| May 25, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Cole, Moniteau | 60 min |
| May 25, 1:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Moniteau | 5 hr |
| May 25, 1:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Cole | 39 min |
| May 25, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway, Montgomery, Pike | 42 min |
| May 25, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Warren | 51 min |
| May 25, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Boone, Callaway, Cole, Moniteau | 50 min |
| May 25, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone, Marion, Monroe, Ralls, Shelby | 43 min |
| May 25, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway, Montgomery, Pike | 40 min |
| May 25, 2:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Warren | 53 min |
| May 25, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain, Marion, Monroe, Ralls, Shelby | 49 min |
| May 25, 2:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Cole | 5 hr |
| May 25, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Callaway, Cole, Osage | 45 min |
| May 25, 2:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade | 53 min |
| May 25, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Crawford | 61 min |
| May 25, 2:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone | 6 hr |
| May 25, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain, Montgomery, Pike | 48 min |
| May 25, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Francois, Washington | 18 min |
| May 25, 2:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway, Montgomery, Osage | 46 min |
| May 25, 2:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 32 min |
| May 25, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Gasconade, Osage | 39 min |
| May 25, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Marion, Monroe, Pike, Ralls | 51 min |
| May 25, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Pike | 50 min |
| May 25, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Franklin, Gasconade, Lincoln, Montgomery, Warren | 40 min |
| May 25, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Iron, Reynolds | 40 min |
| May 25, 3:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe | 6 hr |
| May 25, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles | 36 min |
| May 25, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 44 min |
| May 25, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Crawford, Franklin, Jefferson, Washington | 41 min |
| May 25, 3:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike | 6 hr |
| May 25, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 46 min |
| May 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 33 min |
| May 25, 3:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike, Ralls | 41 min |
| May 25, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion | 25 min |
| May 25, 3:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Ralls | 6 hr |
| May 25, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lincoln, Saint Charles, Warren | 38 min |
| May 25, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison, Reynolds, Saint Francois, Washington | 37 min |
| May 25, 3:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion | 6 hr |
| May 25, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 47 min |
| May 25, 3:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LSX | Callaway | 6 hr |
| May 25, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Iron, Madison | 46 min |
| May 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 45 min |
| May 25, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 40 min |
| May 25, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 49 min |
| May 25, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Iron, Jefferson, Saint Francois, Washington | 46 min |
| May 25, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Sainte Genevieve | 52 min |
| May 25, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 45 min |
| May 25, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson | 26 min |
| May 25, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis | 21 min |
| May 25, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Madison | 45 min |
| May 25, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois, Washington | 39 min |
| May 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 25 min |
| May 25, 5:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 4 hr |
| May 25, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve | 48 min |
| May 25, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Madison, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 43 min |
| May 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Jefferson, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 52 min |
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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.