Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1990, 6:49 PM CDT for Jasper County, Lawrence County, Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1990, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1990, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSGF 032349
SVRSGF
MOC109-145-097-040045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
649 PM CDT THU MAY 3 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
WESTERN LAWRENCE...EASTERN NEWTON...EASTERN JASPER
AT 645 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN
NEWTON AND EASTERN JASPER COUNTIES OR ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF SPRINGFIELD MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MILES PER HOUR.
DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE SORMS.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE+ HAIL
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE
OR NO WARNING.
MURPHYWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 3, 6:13 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
MOZ019-040000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 610 PM CDT THU MAY 3 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 610 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ABOUT 85 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH MCDONALD COUNTY BY 630 PM AND INTO NEWTON COUNTY AND THE CITY OF NEOSHO BY 715 PM CDT. MURPHY
Special weather statement, May 3, 6:23 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
MOZ019-040000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 625 PM CDT THU MAY 3 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 625 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORM CELLS FROM 20 MILES TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JOPLIN MISSOURI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE AND PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR FURTHER BULLETINS. VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CITY OF NEOSHO IN CENTRAL NEWTON COUNTY BY 700 PM CDT. MURPHY
Special weather statement, May 3, 6:37 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
MOZ019-016-040015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 635 PM CDT THU MAY 3 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 635 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORM CELLS FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF JOPLIN TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JOPLIN. ANOTHER STRONG CELL HAD DEVELOPED 20 MILES EAST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR FORDLAND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE AND PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR FURTHER BULLETINS. VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS AND LOW LEVEL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN THESE ARAS. THE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CITY OF NEOSHO IN CENTRAL NEWTON COUNTY AND INTO SOUTHERN JASPER COUNTY BY 730 PM CDT. MURPHY
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.