Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 9:08 PM CDT for Maries County, Missouri. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1994, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1994, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maries County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1792 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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, Jul 6, 5:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
MOZ043-062340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 538 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994 AT 535 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A COUPLE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN CASS COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH AND STRONG WIND WILL BE ENTERING PLEASANT HILL AND STRASBURG AREAS BY 6 PM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
MOZ043-062340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 538 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994 AT 535 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A COUPLE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN CASS COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
MOZ043-062340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 538 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994 AT 535 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A COUPLE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN CASS COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH AND STRONG WIND WILL BE ENTERING PLEASANT HILL AND STRASBURG AREAS BY 6 PM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
MOZ043-070000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 558 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DISSIPATING OVER CASS COUNTY... THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN CASS COUNTY JUST NORTH OF GUNN CITY HAVE COLLAPSED AND WEAKENED RAPIDLY SINCE 545 PM. THE WINDS HAVE ALSO DROPPED OFF AND LESS THAN 30 MPH. THE STORMS WILL PASS TO THE EAST OF PLEASANT HILL AS THEY CONTINUE TO WEAKEN. JULY
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
MOZ043-070000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 558 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DISSIPATING OVER CASS COUNTY... THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN CASS COUNTY JUST NORTH OF GUNN CITY HAVE COLLAPSED AND WEAKENED RAPIDLY SINCE 545 PM. THE WINDS HAVE ALSO DROPPED OFF AND LESS THAN 30 MPH. THE STORMS WILL PASS TO THE EAST OF PLEASANT HILL AS THEY CONTINUE TO WEAKEN. JULY
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 6:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
MOZ043-070000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 601 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DISSIPATING OVER CASS COUNTY... THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN CASS COUNTY JUST NORTH OF GUNN CITY HAVE COLLAPSED AND WEAKENED RAPIDLY SINCE 545 PM. THE WINDS HAVE ALSO DROPPED OFF TO LESS THAN 30 MPH. THE STORMS WILL PASS TO THE EAST OF PLEASANT HILL AS THEY CONTINUE TO WEAKEN. JULY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.