Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT for Dade County, Lawrence County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 1993, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 1993, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dade County, MO, Lawrence County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 392 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
- 1409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.0
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, Sep 19, 1:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Sep 19, 3:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
M0Z015-016-019-020-021-192100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 310 PM CDT SUN SEP 19 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 873 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...SEVERAL OF THEM VERY HEAVY...EXTENDED FROM PITTSBURG KANSAS TO LIBERAL TO SCHELL CITY MISSOURI AT 3 PM. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THAT MOVEMENT WOULD TAKE THEM TO A LINE FPROM LAMAR TO HUMANSVILLE BY ABOUT 4 PM CDT. THE VERY HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST TO THE NORTHWEST OF LIBERAL ON THE STATE LINE AND IS MOVING TOWARD THE IRWIN AREA. NINE
Special weather statement, Sep 19, 4:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
M0Z015-016-019-020-021-192315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 425 PM CDT SUN SEP 19 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... A TORNADO WATCH HAS REPLACED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED EARLIER. AT SHORTLY AFTER 4 PM A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM HERMITAGE TO GREENFIELD TO CARTHAGE. THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST. SOME ESEPCIALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE STOCKTON AND POMME DE TERRE LAKE AREAS. THEY WERE EXPECTED TO MOVE ALONG THE NORTHERN EDGE OF POLK AND DALLAS COUNTIES AND APPROACH THE URBANA VICINITY BY 5 PM. THE NEXT BATCH OF EXTREMELY STRONG STORMS WAS STILL WELL TO THE WEST OF MISSOURI IN THE AREA BETWEEN CHANUTE AND PARSONS KANSAS AND THEY SHOULD ARRIVE IN MISSOURI IN ABOUT 2 HOURS OR AROUND 6 PM OR SHORTLY AFTER. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. NINNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk | 58 min |
| Sep 19, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper, Vernon | 55 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.