Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1993, 4:03 PM CDT for Adair County, Missouri. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 1993, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 1993, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adair County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 943 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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, Sep 2, 2:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Sep 2, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
MOZ005>011-013-014-015-030200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 235 PM CDT THU SEP 2 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF MISSOURI... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 800 PM. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...SEDALIA...COLUMBIA...JEFFERSON CITY... MACON AND HANNIBAL. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE QUINCY ILLINOIS. AS A COLD FRONT EDGES INTO THE REGION...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF YOU LIVE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA...BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. SHEA
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 2:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
MOZ005>011-013-014-015-030200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 235 PM CDT THU SEP 2 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LARGE PART OF MISSOURI... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 800 PM. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...SEDALIA...COLUMBIA...JEFFERSON CITY... MACON AND HANNIBAL. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE QUINCY ILLINOIS. AS A COLD FRONT EDGES INTO THE REGION...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF YOU LIVE IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA...BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND( LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. SHEA
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 3:50 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-013-014-022200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 350 PM CDT THU SEP 2 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... AT 345 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF COLUMBIA AND SOUTH OF JEFFERSON CITY. THE STORM NORTH OF COLUMBIA WAS LOCATED BETWEEN HARRISBURG AND HALLSVILLE AND WILL MOVE NEAR MEXICO BEFORE 430 PM. THE STORM SOUTH OF JEFFERSON CITY EXTENDED FROM NEAR IBERIA TO LINN. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT BELLE AND OWENSVILLE BETWEEN 400 AND 430 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BE PREPARED FOR DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG WINDS ...HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NWS RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. STANLEY
Special weather statement, Sep 2, 3:55 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-013-014-022200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 350 PM CDT THU SEP 2 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... AT 345 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF COLUMBIA AND SOUTH OF JEFFERSON CITY. THE STORM NORTH OF COLUMBIA WAS LOCATED BETWEEN HARRISBURG AND HALLSVILLE AND WILL MOVE NEAR MEXICO BEFORE 430 PM. THE STORM SOUTH OF JEFFERSON CITY EXTENDED FROM NEAR IBERIA TO LINN. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT BELLE AND OWENSVILLE BETWEEN 400 AND 430 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BE PREPARED FOR DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG WINDS ...HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NWS RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POS\SIBLE WARNINGS. STANLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 64 min |
| Sep 2, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 54 min |
| Sep 2, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Shelby | 35 min |
| Sep 2, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond, Madison | 37 min |
| Sep 2, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Bond | 44 min |
| Sep 2, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 66 min |
| Sep 2, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Brown, Pike | 55 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.