Alert archive / Missouri / Freeze Warnings in 2016
Freeze Warning 2, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this freeze warning at Mar 24, 2016, 2:55 AM CDT for 13 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Mar 25, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 90 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
- Mar 24, 2016, 2:55 AM CDT (07:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 25, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2016, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
Counties Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Cole County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pike County, MO, Warren County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:57 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1307 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted.
542 WWUS73 KLSX 240755 NPWLSX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 255 AM CDT THU MAR 24 2016 MOZ036-041-042-047>052-059-060-062-072-242000- /O.UPG.KLSX.FZ.A.0002.160325T0900Z-160325T1300Z/ /O.NEW.KLSX.FZ.W.0002.160325T0900Z-160325T1300Z/ AUDRAIN MO-BOONE MO-CALLAWAY MO-COLE MO-CRAWFORD MO-FRANKLIN MO- GASCONADE MO-LINCOLN MO-MONITEAU MO-MONTGOMERY MO-OSAGE MO- PIKE MO-WARREN MO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWLING GREEN...COLUMBIA...FULTON... JEFFERSON CITY...MEXICO...SULLIVAN...UNION...WASHINGTON 255 AM CDT THU MAR 24 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 8 AM CDT FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 8 AM CDT FRIDAY. THE FREEZE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TIMING...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP SEVERAL DEGREES BELOW FREEZING EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...UPPER 20S. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE PLANTS AND TREES MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ CVKING
3 follow-up statements
680 WWUS73 KLSX 242048 NPWLSX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 348 PM CDT THU MAR 24 2016 MOZ036-041-042-047>052-059-060-062-072-250930- /O.CON.KLSX.FZ.W.0002.160325T0900Z-160325T1300Z/ AUDRAIN MO-BOONE MO-CALLAWAY MO-COLE MO-CRAWFORD MO-FRANKLIN MO- GASCONADE MO-LINCOLN MO-MONITEAU MO-MONTGOMERY MO-OSAGE MO- PIKE MO-WARREN MO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWLING GREEN...COLUMBIA...FULTON... JEFFERSON CITY...MEXICO...SULLIVAN...UNION...WASHINGTON 348 PM CDT THU MAR 24 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 8 AM CDT FRIDAY... * TIMING...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP SEVERAL DEGREES BELOW FREEZING EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...LOWS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE UPPER 20S. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE PLANTS AND TREES MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ BRITT
809 WWUS73 KLSX 250839 NPWLSX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 339 AM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016 MOZ036-041-042-047>052-059-060-062-072-251300- /O.CON.KLSX.FZ.W.0002.160325T0900Z-160325T1300Z/ AUDRAIN MO-BOONE MO-CALLAWAY MO-COLE MO-CRAWFORD MO-FRANKLIN MO- GASCONADE MO-LINCOLN MO-MONITEAU MO-MONTGOMERY MO-OSAGE MO- PIKE MO-WARREN MO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWLING GREEN...COLUMBIA...FULTON... JEFFERSON CITY...MEXICO...SULLIVAN...UNION...WASHINGTON 339 AM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * TIMING...TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO NEAR FREEZING VERY EARLY THIS MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...NEAR FREEZING. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE PLANTS AND TREES MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ GOSSELIN
213 WWUS73 KLSX 251030 NPWLSX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 530 AM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016 MOZ036-041-042-047>052-059-060-062-072-251130- /O.CAN.KLSX.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160325T1300Z/ AUDRAIN MO-BOONE MO-CALLAWAY MO-COLE MO-CRAWFORD MO-FRANKLIN MO- GASCONADE MO-LINCOLN MO-MONITEAU MO-MONTGOMERY MO-OSAGE MO- PIKE MO-WARREN MO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWLING GREEN...COLUMBIA...FULTON... JEFFERSON CITY...MEXICO...SULLIVAN...UNION...WASHINGTON 530 AM CDT FRI MAR 25 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS CANCELLED THE FREEZE WARNING. OVERNIGHT CLOUD COVER HAS KEPT TEMPERATURES WARMER THAN PREVIOUSLY FORECAST WITH LOWS VERY EARLY THIS MORNING ONLY DROPPING INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S. $$ GOSSELIN
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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.