Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO

April 2, 1989Barry County, Lawrence County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1989, 4:34 PM CDT for Barry County, Lawrence County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 1989, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 1989, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Barry County, MO, Lawrence County, MO

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 2, 4:57 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 75	Barry, MO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 3 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1082 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 464 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 572 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 022134
SVRSGF
MOC009-109-022230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
434 PM CDT SUN APR 2 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
      NORTHERN BARRY...SOUTHERN LAWRENCE

AT 430PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 20 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF JOPLIN...NEAR GRANBY.

PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS WAS REPORTED AT 420PM CDT WITH STORM
AS IT MOVED OVER NEOSHO.

THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY...
AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

 JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Webster	68 min
Apr 2, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone	53 min
Apr 2, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	58 min
Apr 2, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.