Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1993, 7:30 AM CDT for Oregon County, Shannon County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1993, 7:30 AM CDT (12:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1993, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Oregon County, MO, Shannon County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 456 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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, Jun 4, 3:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
MOZ015-016-017-019-020-021-040930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 330 AM CDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM FOR SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 900 AM THIS FRIDAY MORNING. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF JOPLIN...SPRINGFIELD...AND WEST PLAINS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THE CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. AT 330 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR LOCAL MEDIA OR NO AA WEATHER RADIO FOR STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IF YOU OBSERVE THREATENING WEATHER SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. BAREIS
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
MOZ015-016-017-019-020-021-040930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO. 330 AM CDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM FOR SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 900 AM THIS FRIDAY MORNING. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF JOPLIN...SPRINGFIELD...AND WEST PLAINS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THE CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. AT 330 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR LOCAL MED:IA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IF YOU OBSERVE THREATENING WEATHER SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. BAREIS
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-021-041100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 445 AM CDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI THIS MORNING WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL ACROSS GREENE COUNTY IN AND AROUND SPRING- FIELD AND 70 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD ACROSS SOUTHERN LACLEDE AND NORTHERN TEXAS COUNTIES. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AT THIS TIME BUT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA HAVE BEEN PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN MISSOURI NEAR JOPLIN AROUND 530 AM. PERSONS IN WESTERN MISSOURI SHOULD GET PREPARED FOR LARGE DAMAGING HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS NEAR 50 MILES PER HOUR. MURPHY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Shannon | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 5:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, McDonald, Newton | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 6:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark, Taney | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 6:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 6:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 7:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Taney | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 7:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 8:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ripley | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 8:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Carter, Oregon, Shannon | 21 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.