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Winter Weather Advisory 4, NWS St. Louis, MO

February 14, 20157 counties in Missouri; Randolph County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 14, 2015, 3:36 PM CST for 7 counties in Missouri; Randolph County, Illinois. It took effect at Feb 15, 2015, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 14, 2015, 3:36 PM CST (21:36 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 15, 2015, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 15, 2015, 2:50 AM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO

Counties Randolph County, IL, Crawford 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), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 317 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2015-02-14Temperature 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2015-02-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1346 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 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.