Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 5:59 PM CST for Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1993, 5:59 PM CST (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1993, 6:40 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wright County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 310001 SVRSGF MOC153-229-043-310100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO ISSUED BY ST LOUIS MO 559 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...OZARK COUNTY...WRIGHT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...EASTERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. ONE STORM WAS OVER WESTERN WRIGHT COUNTY...35 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD...NEAR ODIN. THE SECOND STORM WAS IN CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COUNTY...20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD. THE THIRD STORM WAS IN OZARK COUNTY...40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WEST PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE GROVE SPRING...COMPETITION AND SPARTA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SHEA/PRZYBYLINSKI
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, 1:25 PM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-021-302230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 125 PM CST TUE MAR 39 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS FORMED OVER WESTERN MISSOURI...EXTENDING FROM NEAR NEVADA SOUTH TO JOPLIN THEN SOUTH INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST NORTH- EAST OF JOPLIN AND ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF JOPLIN. THIS AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 30 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL CONTINUE OVER WESTERN MISSOURI THROUGH 400 PM. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THIS TIME BUT PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR SOME NEWS SOURCE FOR FURTHER BULLETINS ON THESE STORMS. MURPHY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Lawrence | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 3:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Stone | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 5:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Ozark, Taney | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 5:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 5:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.