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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 30, 1993Cooper County, Howard County, Missouri

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 4:49 PM CST for Cooper County, Howard County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 1993, 4:49 PM CST (22:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 1993, 5:30 PM CST
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Kansas City, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cooper County, MO, Howard County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 250 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1993-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1993-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 241 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1346 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, Mar 30, 4:47 PM CST, 2 minutes before
MOZ001-002-005-008-009-013-302345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
445 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST... AT 430 PM CST STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO RUMBLE ACROSS EASTERN
KANSAS AND PARTS OF NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN MARSHALL AND CARROLITON AND
AND NORTHWEST OF SEDALIA IN MISSOURI.   THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL
HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING.  ALTHOUGH NONE OF
THESE STORMS ARE SEVERE...PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR
SEVERE WEATHER AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 1:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHolt43 min
Mar 30, 2:29 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXClinton31 min
Mar 30, 2:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSt. Clair26 min
Mar 30, 3:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXSt. Clair41 min
Mar 30, 3:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXHenry30 min
Mar 30, 4:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLafayette26 min
Mar 30, 4:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXPettis, Saline34 min
Mar 30, 5:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCamden, Morgan47 min
Mar 30, 5:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXBoone, Cooper, Howard31 min

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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.