Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 4, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 1993, 6:25 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1993, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1993, 7:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 297 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
- 1360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 302327 TORSTL MOC113-010030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 625 PM CDT WED JUN 30 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...LINCOLN COUNTY AT 625 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST EAST OF OLNEY...OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF HANNIBAL. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF OLNEY...MILLWOOD...SILEX...DAVIS...AND HAWK POINT ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THIS STORM ALSO HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS A VERY LARGE HAIL. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. GLASS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 30, 1:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
MOZ004-005-008-009-013-302000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 105 PM CDT WED JUN 30 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 800 PM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 800 PM THIS EVENING. PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI WHICH WERE IN AN EARLIER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAVE BEEN UPGRADED TO A TORNADO WATCH. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ST JOSEPH...THE KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA AND SEDALIA. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN ANXD CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE LIVING IN WEST CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND OR WARNINGS. GLASS
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 3:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-013-014-302130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 315 PM CDT WED JUN 30 1993 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 315 PM...A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST AND NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF MOBERLY MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF THE COMMUNITY OF SHELBINA...OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF MOBERLY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. THE CITY OF MOBERLY WILL SEE THE FIRST RAIN AROUND 330 PM...FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL PERIODS OF STORMY WEATHER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EXTREME NORTHERN PORTIONS OF MISSOURI...AND A TORNADO WATCH OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE IS ALSO POSSIBLE AND RESIDENTS LIVING CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF DEVELOPING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PERLOW : =*K296QJZ/r)zUbZN5J> <y"*~Fbf FN*"j
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-013-014-302130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 315 PM CDT WED JUN 30 1993 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 315 PM...A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST AND NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF MOBERLY MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF THE COMMUNITY OF SHELBINA...OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF MOBERLY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. THE CITY OF MOBERLY WILL SEE THE FIRST RAIN AROUND 330 PM...FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL PERIODS OF STORMY WEATHER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EXTREME NORTHERN PORTIONS OF MISSOURI...AND A TORNADO WATCH OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE IS ALSO POSSIBLEt AND RESIDENTS LIVING CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF DEVELOPING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PERLOW
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 3:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
MOZ006-009-010-011-013-014-302130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION IN TEXT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 315 PM CDT WED JUN 30 1993 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 315 PM...A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST AND NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF MOBERLY MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF THE COMMUNITY OF SHELBINA...OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF MOBERLY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. THE CITY OF MOBERLY WILL SEE THE FIRST RAIN AROUND 330 PM...FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL PERIODS OF STORMY WEATHER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EXTREME NORTHERN PORTIONS OF MISSOURI...AND A TORNADO WATCH OVER PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE IS ALSO POSSIBLE AND RESIDENTS LIVING CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF DEVELOPING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PERLOW
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 6:00 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
MOZ003-006-007-011-012-010100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 600 PM CDT WED JUN 30 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 8 PM CDT... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 10 PM CDT... A CLUSTER OF STORNG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... JUST NORTH OF THE ST LOUIS METRO AREA AT 6 PM. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE OCCURING OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI...NORTH OF ST JOSEPH AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHWEST IOWA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHERN MISSOURI THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE OVER NORTHERN MISSOURI...SO SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND...HAIL... AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. ALSO...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF POSSIBLE OF SPAWNING TORNADOES. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...THE HEAVY RAIN FALL FROM THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN MISSOURI FOR TONIGHT. PEOPLE ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY TONIGHT. BE READY TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS YOUR AREA. FERRY
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 6:19 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
MOZ003-006-007-011-012-010100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 600 PM CDT WED JUN 30 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 8 PM CDT... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AND EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 10 PM CDT... A CLUSTER OF STORNG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... JUST NORTH OF THE ST LOUIS METRO AREA AT 6 PM. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE OCCURING OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI...NORTH OF ST JOSEPH AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHWEST IOWA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHERN MISSOURI THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE OVER NORTHERN MISSOURI...SO SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND...HAIL... AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. ALSO...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF POSSIBLE OF SPAWNING TORNADOES. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...THE HEAVY RAIN FALL FROM THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN MISSOURI FOR TONIGHT. PEOPLE ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE STATE SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY TONIGHT. BE READY TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS YOUR AREA. FERRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin, Jefferson | 40 min |
| Jun 30, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Washington | 40 min |
| Jun 30, 5:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois | 52 min |
| Jun 30, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe, Shelby | 43 min |
| Jun 30, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Ralls | 54 min |
| Jun 30, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Monroe | 32 min |
| Jun 30, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 50 min |
| Jun 30, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lincoln | 66 min |
| Jun 30, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 43 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 1993Every tornado warning in 1993Tornadoes 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.