Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1993, 1:30 AM CDT for Boone County, Moniteau County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1993, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1993, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, MO, Moniteau County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 2636 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 11.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What 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, Jun 3, 10:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-040425- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1035 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE APPROACHING THE KANSAS CITY AREA... AT 1025 PM...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND SMALL HAIL...WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN EASTCENTRAL KANSAS IN AND AROUND THE OTTAWA AREA...AND ALONG INTERSTATE 70...25 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY...OR NEAR BLUE SPRINGS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. EVERSOLE
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 10:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-040425- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1035 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE APPROACHING THE KANSAS CITY AREA... AT 1025 PM...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND SMALL HAIL...WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS AND WESTCENTRAL MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN EASTCENTRAL KANSAS IN AND AROUND THE OTTAWA AREA...AND AHLONG INTERSTATE 70...25 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY...OR NEAR BLUE SPRINGS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. EVERSOLE
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 11:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-KSZ-016 040500 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1100 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1100 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR LAWRENCE TO OTTAWA KANSAS AND ALONG I70...35 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY OR FROM LEXINGTON TO ODESSA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH IN TURN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME ROADWAYS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED 1.12 INCHES OF RAIN AT PLEASANT HILL MISSOURI BETWEEN 925 AND 1040 PM. REMEMBER...DO NOT WALK OR DRIVE THROUGH HIGH WATER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 400 AM.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 11:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
MOZ001-002-004-005-008-KSZ-016 040500 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 1100 PM CDT THU JUN 3 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 1100 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR LAWRENCE TO OTTAWA KANSAS AND ALONG I70...35 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY OR FROM LEXINGTON TO ODESSA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH IN TURN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME ROADWAYS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED 1.12 INCHES OF RAIN AT PLEASANT HILL MISSOURI BETWEEN 925 AND 1040 PM. REMEMBER...DO NOT WALK OR DRIVE THROUGH HIGH WATER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 400 AM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cass | 40 min |
| Jun 4, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Henry | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Callaway, Cole | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Callaway, Osage | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gasconade, Maries | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Osage | 29 min |
| Jun 3, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 29 min |
| Jun 3, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.