Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 5:59 PM CST for Ozark County, Missouri. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1993, 5:59 PM CST (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1993, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ozark County, MO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 6:30 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Gainesville, MO | A tornado touched down briefly off of Highway 181 damaging an outbuilding and several homes. Pieces of the outbuilding were found a half mile away and 2-by-4 boards were driven through the roof of an old home. Boards were also found stuck in the ground like |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
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, 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 | Wright | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 5:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.