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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO

March 30, 1993Wright County, Missouri

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.

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

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 2:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDade, Lawrence52 min
Mar 30, 3:28 PM CSTTornado WarningSGFStone32 min
Mar 30, 5:11 PM CSTTornado WarningSGFOzark, Taney49 min
Mar 30, 5:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian41 min
Mar 30, 5:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFOzark61 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.