Scattered strong to severe storms moved southeast across the region. There were numerous reports of damaging winds and large hail.
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The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
Scattered strong to severe storms moved southeast across the region. There were numerous reports of damaging winds and large hail.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 19, 6:38 PM CST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...Updated National Weather Service Saint Louis MO 738 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018 .UPDATE... Issued at 732 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018 Severe thunderstorm watch 286 issued for portions of NE MO and WC/SW IL til 2 am. Large complex of storms moving southeast through this area this evening. Byrd && .SHORT TERM... (Through Late Friday Afternoon) Issued at 400 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018 Forecast challenges mainly deal with convective trends late this afternoon into this evening, overnight tonight and again Friday. The early morning thunderstorm complex that developed and spread through central/southeast Missouri this morning, effectively resulted in a relatively stable environment. Outflow from this complex then propagated west-southwest in the Kansas City area, where additional storms have been focused. The big question this afternoon has been whether a second round would develop and become organized over north-central Missouri. Trends have continued to favor western Missouri, generally along the outflow boundary from this morning's convection. Despite some afternoon cap erosion over northern Missouri, the relatively stable layer continues to hold and redevelopment has remained isolated and short-lived. The best support coincides with ongoing convection over western Missouri, where a thin corridor of ~3000 J/kg of MUCape extend north-to-south. Instability tails off to about 1000 J/kg toward the St. Louis area. Current thinking is that additional storm could still fire, but will likely be tamed by this stable pocket over central and east-central Missouri. Additional storms area more likely to redevelop in area that were not already contaminate by this morning's thunderstorms, which includes ongoing convection over eastern Kansas, western Missouri and near the Missouri/Iowa border, closer to the junction of the cold/warm frontal boundaries and just east of the 40-50kt jet streak. Guidance hints at a mid-upper drying taking place behind the upper level wave, pushing northwest to southeast over central Missouri into Friday morning. Eastward progress of the frontal boundary, along with the upper low and jet max should be enough to push most severe potential well into Illinois and over the OH/TN Valley Regions. Given the lesser likelihood of precip, temps were bumped up a couple of degrees with a gradual drop in humidity from east to west during the day Friday. Maples .LONG TERM... (Friday Night through Next Thursday) Issued at 400 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018 A longwave trough over parts of the central and eastern US will begin to deepen by Friday night. An attendant low over the Great Lakes on Friday night will move to the Ohio valley by Saturday morning, then over into the southeast US by Sunday afternoon. Showers and a few thunderstorms can be expected Saturday afternoon across west central and southwest IL, east of the Mississippi River on the backside of the vertically stacked low pressure system. Showers and a few thunderstorms are possible on Sunday over southwestern Illinois on the back side of the trough. The low over the Gulf coast will then become cut off from the deep long wave trough. North-northwest flow will continue over the forecast area from Friday night through Wednesday over the area. Cooler temperatures are expected over the area this weekend due to the north-northwest flow over the forecast area. The operational models continue to brings more showers and a few thunderstorms across southeast MO and southwest IL Tuesday afternoon as a cold front drops southeastward through our area with broad upper level troughing over the northern Plains and Great Lakes region. The cold is expect to move just south of the CWA on Wednesday with additional chances for isolated showers and thunderstorms again on Wednesday afternoon over southeast Missouri and southwestern Illinois. Temperature will be at seasonal values for late July over the area. Kelly && .AVIATION... (For the 00z TAFs through 00z Friday Evening) Issued at 735 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018 Complex of storms moving southeast to affect KUIN between 01z and 02z so added mention to taf. Otherwise, VFR conditions through forecast period for region. South winds to veer to the southwest then west to northwest as cold front moves through betweeen 14z and 19z Friday. SPECIFICS FOR KSTL: Complex of storms moving southeast to affect NE but remain north of STL. Otherwise, VFR conditions through forecast period for metro area. South winds to veer to the southwest around 12z Friday then west to northwest as cold front moves through by 19z Friday and become gusty. Northwest winds to diminish by 02z Saturday. Byrd && .LSX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...None. IL...None. && WFO LSX
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Saint Louis MO 415 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018 ILZ058>060-064-065-069-070-074-079-095>102-MOZ018-019-026-027- 034>036-041-042-047>052-059>065-072>075-084-085-099-201130- 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- 415 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of eastern and central Missouri as well as west central and southwest Illinois. .DAY ONE...Tonight Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms are possible tonight, mainly through northeast Missouri into central Illinois. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday Isolated severe thunderstorms are possible across far southeast Missouri and southern Illinois on Friday. There will be a slight chance for thunderstorms Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon across central and southwest Illinois, in addition to Tuesday and Tuesday evening for southeast Missouri and southwest Illinois. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this evening and tonight. Spotters are encouraged to report any severe weather, if observed, to the National Weather Service. Maples
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 160 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:37 UTC.
3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs and power lines across northern Adams County. On far northeast side of Quincy a two foot diameter tree was blown over damaging three vehicles parked near it.
Thunderstorm winds blew down several power poles about a mile north of Hillview.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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