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Special Weather Statement, NWS St. Louis, MO

August 16, 2017Jersey County, Illinois

NWS St. Louis, MO issued this special weather statement at Aug 16, 2017, 4:02 PM CDT for Jersey County, Illinois. 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
Aug 16, 2017, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2017, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS St. Louis, MO

County Jersey County, IL

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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 2017-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 487 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2017-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 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
487 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS St. Louis, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 16, 3:32 PM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 3:32 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 16, 3:38 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 16, 3:07 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
307 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0230 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 SE COLUMBIA           38.94N  92.31W
08/16/2017                   BOONE              MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREE DOWN ON TOP OF A HOUSE ON MORNINGSIDE DRIVE IN
            SOUTHEASTERN COLUMBIA.

&&

EVENT NUMBER LSX1700583

FUCHS
Local storm report, Aug 16, 3:15 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
315 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0314 PM     TSTM WND GST     3 W CHESTERFIELD        38.66N  90.63W
08/16/2017  M46 MPH          ST. LOUIS          MO   ASOS

&&

EVENT NUMBER LSX1700584

ELMORE
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 3:15 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service St Louis MO
315 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2017

MOZ061-063-162100-
St. Louis MO-St. Charles MO-
315 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL ST. CHARLES AND NORTHERN
ST. LOUIS COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT...

At 315 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Chesterfield, moving northeast at 30 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
O'Fallon, St. Charles, St. Peters, Florissant, Chesterfield,
Wildwood, University City, Ballwin, Alton, Maryland Heights,
Hazelwood, Ferguson, Manchester, Creve Coeur, Overland, Jennings, St.
Ann, Bridgeton, Dardenne Prairie and Bellefontaine Neighbors.

This includes Interstate 70 in Missouri between exits 224 and 231.

This also includes  Confluence State Park and First Missouri State
Capitol Historic Site.

LAT...LON 3881 9012 3877 9017 3877 9018 3873 9022
      3872 9025 3870 9027 3856 9058 3871 9079
      3894 9035 3892 9031 3892 9025 3885 9012
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 238DEG 25KT 3869 9058

Tilly
Local storm report, Aug 16, 3:33 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 3:36 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 4:02 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 1:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLSXBoone, Cole, Moniteau59 min
Aug 16, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXBoone, Cole, Moniteau51 min
Aug 16, 2:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSXCallaway, Cole, Osage43 min
Aug 16, 2:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLSXCallaway, Montgomery, Osage46 min
Aug 16, 3:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLSXCity of Saint Louis39 min
Aug 16, 3:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLSXSaint Louis45 min
Aug 16, 3:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLSXGasconade, Warren39 min
Aug 16, 4:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLSXSaint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis47 min

Nearby

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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.