Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1994, 2:43 PM CDT for Camden County, Miller County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 1994, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 1994, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Camden County, MO, Miller County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 948 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 435 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 495 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 301946 RRA SVRCOU MOC029-131-302030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 243 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHEASTERN CAMDEN COUNTY...MILLER COUNTY AT 240PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON CITY...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF CAMDENTON OVER THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE TUSCUMBIA...OSAGE BEACH...AND SAINT ELIZABETH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER C OVERS THE ROAD. REAUGH/UTHLAUT
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.
NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 30, 9:48 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 9:48 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 945 AM CDT MON AUG 29 1994 GOOD MOISTURE FETCH FROM SW ACROSS REGION SHOULD KEEP QUITE A BIT OF CLOUDINESS ACROSS THE REGION TODAY MAIKING TEMP FCST TRICKY. HAVE HAD A GOOD LOW LEVEL JET ACROSS AREA OVERNIGHT WITH TOP MORNING SOUNDING SHOWING 50 KTS AT H8 LEVEL...BUT WITH IT FROM SW...IT HAS FOCUSED ACTIVITY INTO NE MO THIS MORNING. STRONG H8 JET FCST TO HEAD INTO GREAT LAKES THIS AFTERNOON. FLOW NEAR THE SFC WILL REMAIN MORE SOUTHERLY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...KEEPING THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AXIS THROUGH THE AREA. IF WE DO GET SOME DECENT HEATING...ATMOSPHERE UNSTABLE ENOUGH TO KEEP SOME SCTD STORMS POPPING. THEN LATER THIS AFTERNOON...LOOKING FOR MORE ORGANIZED CONVECTION AS COLD FRONT APPROACHES AREA. WILL KEEP POPS IN FORECAST FOR NOW UNTIL PCPN BECOMES MORE ORGANIZED. MIDDLE OF THE ROAD APPROACH SEEMS BEST WITH TEMPS FOR NOW SO WILL LE8AVE ZFP AS IS. PC
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 12:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
MOZ001>007-011>016-020>023-028>031-037-038-043-044-053-054-067- KSZ057-060-102>105-311200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1255 PM CDT TUE AUG 30 1994 THIS STATEMENT APPLIES TO THE EASTERN KANSAS COUNTIES OF DONIPHAN JOHNSON LEAVENWORTH LINN MIAMI WYANDOTTE AND THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN MISSOURI COUNTIES OF ANDREW CASS GRUNDY LAFAYETTE RAY ATCHISON CLAY HARRISON LIVINGSTON ST. CLAIR BATES CLINTON HENRY MERCER SULLIVAN BUCHANAN DAVIESS HOLT NODAWAY WORTH CALDWELL DEKALB JACKSON PLATTE CARROLL GENTRY JOHNSON PUTNAM ...THE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS... A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MISSOURI BY 2 PM...AND MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE AIR OUT AHEAD OF THE FRONT IS VERY WARM ...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND HAS ALREADY BEEN PRODUCING SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE MORNING. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BOOST CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. THE NORTHWEST CORNER MAY NOT SEE ANY STRONG STORMS AS THE FRONT MAY MOVE THROUGH EARLY ENOUGH BEFORE MUCH DEVELOPMENT CAN OCCUR. HOWEVER...ONCE THE FRONT ENTERS THE AREA OF DEEPER MOISTURE STRETCHING OUT OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...THROUGH WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. PC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miller, Morgan | 27 min |
| Aug 30, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Camden | 42 min |
| Aug 30, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 52 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.