Alert archive / Missouri / Freeze Warnings in 2016
Freeze Warning 8, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this freeze warning at Nov 12, 2016, 2:39 AM CST for Marion County, Randolph County, Washington County, Illinois; 10 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Nov 13, 2016, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 2016, 2:39 AM CST (08:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 13, 2016, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 13, 2016, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
Counties Marion County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Washington County, IL, Crawford County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Iron County, MO, Jefferson 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), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
747 WWUS73 KLSX 120839 NPWLSX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAINT LOUIS MO 239 AM CST SAT NOV 12 2016 ...WIDESPREAD HARD FREEZE EXPECTED TONIGHT... ILZ070-074-079-MOZ059-062-065-072>075-084-085-099-122045- /O.NEW.KLSX.FZ.W.0008.161113T0600Z-161113T1400Z/ CRAWFORD MO-FRANKLIN MO-GASCONADE MO-IRON MO-JEFFERSON MO- MADISON MO-MARION IL-RANDOLPH IL-REYNOLDS MO-SAINT FRANCOIS MO- SAINTE GENEVIEVE MO-WASHINGTON IL-WASHINGTON MO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CENTRALIA...CHESTER...FARMINGTON... SALEM...SPARTA...SULLIVAN...UNION...WASHINGTON 239 AM CST SAT NOV 12 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM CST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAINT LOUIS HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM CST SUNDAY. * TIMING...TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO APPROACH THE FREEZING MARK AROUND MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AND CONTINUE TO FALL TO WELL BELOW FREEZING. LOOK FOR TEMPERATURES TO WARM BACK UP ABOVE FREEZING BY 8AM SUNDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...LOWS WILL RANGE FROM THE MID 20S TO NEAR 30 DEGREES. * 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. && $$ GOSSELIN
3 follow-up statements
697 WWUS73 KLSX 122259 NPWLSX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAINT LOUIS MO 459 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2016 ...WIDESPREAD HARD FREEZE EXPECTED TONIGHT... ILZ070-074-079-MOZ059-062-065-072>075-084-085-099-131400- /O.CON.KLSX.FZ.W.0008.161113T0600Z-161113T1400Z/ CRAWFORD MO-FRANKLIN MO-GASCONADE MO-IRON MO-JEFFERSON MO- MADISON MO-MARION IL-RANDOLPH IL-REYNOLDS MO-SAINT FRANCOIS MO- SAINTE GENEVIEVE MO-WASHINGTON IL-WASHINGTON MO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CENTRALIA...CHESTER...FARMINGTON... SALEM...SPARTA...SULLIVAN...UNION...WASHINGTON 459 PM CST SAT NOV 12 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM CST SUNDAY... * TIMING...TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO APPROACH THE FREEZING MARK AROUND MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AND CONTINUE TO FALL TO WELL BELOW FREEZING. LOOK FOR TEMPERATURES TO WARM BACK UP ABOVE FREEZING BY 8AM SUNDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...LOWS WILL RANGE FROM THE MID 20 TO NEAR 30 DEGREES. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE PLANTS AND TREES MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ TILLY
297 WWUS73 KLSX 130937 NPWLSX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAINT LOUIS MO 337 AM CST SUN NOV 13 2016 ILZ070-074-079-MOZ059-062-065-072>075-084-085-099-131400- /O.CON.KLSX.FZ.W.0008.000000T0000Z-161113T1400Z/ CRAWFORD MO-FRANKLIN MO-GASCONADE MO-IRON MO-JEFFERSON MO- MADISON MO-MARION IL-RANDOLPH IL-REYNOLDS MO-SAINT FRANCOIS MO- SAINTE GENEVIEVE MO-WASHINGTON IL-WASHINGTON MO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CENTRALIA...CHESTER...FARMINGTON... SALEM...SPARTA...SULLIVAN...UNION...WASHINGTON 337 AM CST SUN NOV 13 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CST THIS MORNING... * TIMING...SUBFREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. * TEMPERATURES...LOWS IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S...WARMING BACK ABOVE FREEZING BY 8 AM. * 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. && $$ GOSSELIN
932 WWUS73 KLSX 131349 NPWLSX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAINT LOUIS MO 749 AM CST SUN NOV 13 2016 ILZ070-074-079-MOZ059-062-065-072>075-084-085-099-131500- /O.EXP.KLSX.FZ.W.0008.000000T0000Z-161113T1400Z/ CRAWFORD MO-FRANKLIN MO-GASCONADE MO-IRON MO-JEFFERSON MO- MADISON MO-MARION IL-RANDOLPH IL-REYNOLDS MO-SAINT FRANCOIS MO- SAINTE GENEVIEVE MO-WASHINGTON IL-WASHINGTON MO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CENTRALIA...CHESTER...FARMINGTON... SALEM...SPARTA...SULLIVAN...UNION...WASHINGTON 749 AM CST SUN NOV 13 2016 ...FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM CST THIS MORNING... A WIDESPREAD HARD FREEZE OVERNIGHT HAS BROUGHT AN END TO THE GROWING SEASON IN MOST AREAS. LOOK FOR TEMPERATURES TO QUICKLY RISE ABOVE THE FREEZING MARK EARLY THIS MORNING. $$ GOSSELIN
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Missouri, 2016Freeze Warnings in Illinois, 2016Every freeze warning in 2016
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.