Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS St. Louis, MO

Area Forecast Discussion...Updated Aviation
National Weather Service Saint Louis MO
654 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

.KEY MESSAGES...

- While periods of storms are expected through Monday morning, the
  most potent thunderstorms will occur through early evening.

- Thunderstorms this evening will be capable of damaging wind
  gusts, large hail, and strong tornadoes.

- A period of cool, calm weather is expected mid-week through the
  weekend.

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.SHORT TERM...THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/...
Issued at 456 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

(Through Tuesday Night)
Issued at 155 AM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

Storms across southeastern Missouri continue to butt up against an
instability gradient draped from north to south across Missouri.
The warm air advection feeding these storms will also push greater
instability slowly northeastward through this morning, though
propagation vectors will favor convection continuing to move east-
southeastward generally away from the CWA or into an unfavorable
environment. Additionally, the low-level jet refocusing across
Kansas will continue to support the downward trend in convection
across southeastern Missouri early this morning. Any linger storms
over the next couple of hours will be capable mainly of large hail,
though there is also a very low damaging wind and tornado threat for
storms that remain surface based.

Our attention turns to the storms over eastern Kansas that are
propagating eastward with the nose of the low-level jet. With the
nose of this low-level jet edging into northeastern Missouri later
this morning, the focus for these storms will spread into portions
of the CWA north of I-70. Vertical thermal profiles suggest that this
convection will be elevated, mitigating a threat of damaging wind
gusts and/or tornadoes. However, with around 40 kts of effective
shear and building MUCAPE, there is a low chance for isolated
instances of large hail.

How long this convection lingers is uncertain, although guidance
trends have been toward a lull in convective activity in the wake of
this convection and that associated with a cold front during the
late afternoon and evening. Ahead of the front, the warm sector
remains capped through much of the afternoon per a majority of
deterministic soundings. Although, any remnant outflow or
differential heating boundary from early day convection may serve as
enough of a forcing mechanism to spawn discrete convection during
the afternoon as lift from an approaching shortwave increases over
the region. If this convection does form, it will be in an
environment characterized by 2,000-2,500 J/kg of SBCAPE and roughly
50 kts of deep-layer shear. This will favor supercells capable of
all hazards, with long curved hodographs favoring strong tornadoes,
especially if storms are able to latch on to any remnant boundaries
across the CWA.

Where the environment isn't contaminated from earlier rounds of
convection, additional updrafts are expected along the cold front as
it enters the area 4-5pm. Forcing from the front paired with lift
from the shortwave will lead to numerous updrafts along the front.
While this will be occurring within a similar environment detailed
prior, the number of updrafts paired with them occurring along the
front may lead to destructive interactions and congealing into line
segments and/or clusters. While this will tend to limit a strong
tornado threat, storms will still be capable of all severe hazards.
Convection is expected to depart the CWA with the front by 9-10pm.

Even with the FROPA Monday evening, the threat for convection will
continue on Tuesday. Guidance consensus has the front stalling just
south of the CWA early Tuesday and then buckling northward as a
shortwave moves through the Central Plains and into the Midwest
through the day. This shortwave will send a subtle surface
reflection through the Mid South along the front, with a brief
period of warm air advection that will help force elevated
convection for areas mainly along and south of I-70. If the front
can move northward enough, shear profiles and instability amounts
favor supercells capable primarily of large hail across far
southeastern Missouri during the afternoon. Waning instability and
the front continuing southward will bring an end to rain chances
during the evening.

Elmore

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.LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/...
Issued at 456 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

(Tuesday Night through Sunday)
Issued at 155 AM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

Both deterministic guidance and ensemble clusters keep upper-level
troughing slowly moving eastward over the eastern CONUS through the
long range forecast period. This will maintain northwesterly flow
over the Middle Mississippi Valley through Saturday as several
rounds of high pressure pass through the region. As a result,
temperatures will run at or below climatological normals into the
weekend and mostly dry weather is expected.

Elmore

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.AVIATION...  (For the 00z TAFs through 00z Tuesday Evening)
Issued at 654 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

Ongoing line of strong to severe thunderstorms moving through the
STL Metro area at the start of this TAF period. Storms along this
line will be capable of damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes.
The line will gradually move east-southeast and exit the forecast
area by 03-04Z. Remainder of the period will generally see calmer
conditions with VFR cloud cover. However, another round of showers
and isolated TSRA will spread into the forecast area from the
southwest after 18-20Z Tuesday. This will mostly impact COU/JEF
during this TAF period, but could spread MVFR ceilings into the
SUS/STL vicinity after 28/23Z.

SPECIFICS FOR KSTL: Broken line of +TSRA will bring a potential
for erratic, possibly damaging winds to STL through 01Z-02Z. Radar
trends show the strongest thunderstorm cores skirting around the
terminal, though additional development is possible within the
next hour. After TSRA exit to the east, VFR conditions dominate
until late in this TAF period (after 29/02Z) when MVFR conditions
could move in from the southwest.

WFO LSX

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.LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...Flood Watch until 9 PM CDT this evening for Audrain MO-Boone MO-
     Callaway MO-Cole MO-Franklin MO-Gasconade MO-Jefferson MO-
     Lincoln MO-Moniteau MO-Montgomery MO-Osage MO-Pike MO-Saint
     Charles MO-Saint Louis City MO-Saint Louis MO-Warren MO.

IL...Flood Watch until 9 PM CDT this evening for Bond IL-Calhoun IL-
     Clinton IL-Fayette IL-Greene IL-Jersey IL-Macoupin IL-
     Madison IL-Marion IL-Monroe IL-Montgomery IL-Saint Clair IL-
     Washington IL.

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WFO LSX

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service St Louis MO
202 AM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027-
034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-280715-
Greene IL-Macoupin IL-Montgomery IL-Bond IL-Fayette IL-Clinton IL-
Marion IL-Washington IL-Randolph IL-Adams IL-Brown IL-Pike IL-
Calhoun IL-Jersey IL-Madison IL-Saint Clair IL-Monroe IL-Knox MO-
Lewis MO-Shelby MO-Marion MO-Monroe MO-Ralls MO-Pike MO-Boone MO-
Audrain MO-Moniteau MO-Cole MO-Osage MO-Callaway MO-Montgomery MO-
Lincoln MO-Gasconade MO-Warren MO-Saint Charles MO-Franklin MO-
Saint Louis MO-Saint Louis City MO-Jefferson MO-Crawford MO-
Washington MO-Saint Francois MO-Sainte Genevieve MO-Iron MO-
Madison MO-Reynolds MO-
202 AM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of eastern and
central Missouri as well as west central and southwest Illinois.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Periods of thunderstorms are expected through the day into this
evening. Thunderstorms this afternoon and evening will be capable of
large hail, damaging wind gusts, and tornadoes.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

There is a chance of thunderstorms Tuesday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotters are encouraged to report wind damage, hail occurrence and
size, and tornado occurrence to NWS St. Louis.

Elmore

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service St Louis MO
733 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

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

0710 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     Florissant              38.80N 90.32W
04/27/2026                   St. Louis          MO   Public

            4 buildings collapsed in Florissant.

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Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service St Louis MO
735 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

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

0730 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     Hamel                   38.89N 89.84W
04/27/2026  E70 MPH          Madison            IL   Public

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Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service St Louis MO
744 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

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

0735 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     2 SE Belleville         38.51N 89.98W
04/27/2026                   St. Clair          IL   Emergency Mngr

            *** 3 INJ ***
            tree onto a house with potential injuries.

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Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service St Louis MO
747 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

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

0558 PM     Hail             1 N Jerseyville         39.14N 90.32W
04/27/2026  E1.00 Inch       Jersey             IL   Public

            Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

0626 PM     Hail             2 S Gerald              38.36N 91.32W
04/27/2026  M1.25 Inch       Franklin           MO   Public

0644 PM     Hail             1 SW Pacific            38.47N 90.76W
04/27/2026  E1.00 Inch       Franklin           MO   Public

            Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

0648 PM     Hail             2 E Gray Summit         38.49N 90.79W
04/27/2026  E1.25 Inch       Franklin           MO   Public

            Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.).

0654 PM     Hail             4 N Pacific             38.53N 90.75W
04/27/2026  E2.00 Inch       Franklin           MO   Public

            Report from mPING: Hen Egg (2.00 in.).

0655 PM     Hail             2 NW Alton              38.93N 90.19W
04/27/2026  E1.50 Inch       Madison            IL   Public

            Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50
            in.).

0658 PM     Hail             2 SW Clarkson Valley    38.60N 90.62W
04/27/2026  E1.00 Inch       St. Louis          MO   Public

            Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

0659 PM     Hail             1 NE Alton              38.91N 90.13W
04/27/2026  E1.00 Inch       Madison            IL   Public

            Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

0700 PM     Hail             2 N Wood River          38.89N 90.08W
04/27/2026  E1.25 Inch       Madison            IL   Public

0707 PM     Hail             1 NW Bethalto           38.91N 90.06W
04/27/2026  E1.75 Inch       Madison            IL   Public

            Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.).

0708 PM     Hail             Bunker Hill             39.04N 89.95W
04/27/2026  E1.00 Inch       Macoupin           IL   Public

            Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

0709 PM     Hail             1 S Bunker Hill         39.02N 89.95W
04/27/2026  E1.00 Inch       Macoupin           IL   Public

            Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

0711 PM     Hail             3 W Carpenter           38.91N 89.95W
04/27/2026  E1.00 Inch       Madison            IL   Public

            Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

0715 PM     Hail             3 W Carpenter           38.91N 89.95W
04/27/2026  E1.25 Inch       Madison            IL   Public

            Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.).

0718 PM     Hail             2 S Benld               39.06N 89.81W
04/27/2026  E1.00 Inch       Macoupin           IL   Public

            Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

0720 PM     Hail             Staunton                39.01N 89.78W
04/27/2026  E1.00 Inch       Macoupin           IL   Public

            Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

0733 PM     Hail             3 SE Columbia           38.43N 90.18W
04/27/2026  E1.00 Inch       Monroe             IL   Public

            Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

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Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service St Louis MO
750 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

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

0720 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     1 E Richmond Heights    38.63N 90.31W
04/27/2026                   St. Louis City     MO   Emergency Mngr

            power line down on McCausland.

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Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service St Louis MO
754 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2026

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

0740 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     1 S Swansea             38.53N 89.99W
04/27/2026  E55 MPH          St. Clair          IL   Public

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MCF