Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 1990, 6:54 PM CDT for Barry County, McDonald County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 1990, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 1990, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barry County, MO, McDonald 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 436 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSGF 182354
SVRSGF
MOC009-119-190045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
654 PM CDT TUE SEP 18 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
BARRY...MCDONALD
AT 750 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED BY MCDONALD COUNTY
SHERIFF 35 MILES SOUTH OF JOPLIN NEAR PINEVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORM
WAS MOVING EAST 25 MILES AN HOUR.
PEOPLE IN THE PINEVILLE AND CASSVILLE AREAS ARE IN A DIRECT LINE
WITH THIS STORM.
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.
LEEWhat 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, Sep 18, 6:26 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-190015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 625 PM CDT TUE SEP 18 1990 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS IN THE MCDONALD COUNTY AREA IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 620 PM CDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD MOVED INTO MCDONALD COUNTY 30 MILES SOUTH OF JOPLIN MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORM HAD INCREASED IN INTENSITY RAPIDLY AND WAS MOVING EAST 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND STRONG GUSTY WIND AS IT MOVES ACROSS MCDONALD COUNTY INCLUDING THE PINEVILLE AREA BY 700 PM. LEE
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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.