Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1994, 11:09 PM CST for Henry County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1994, 11:09 PM CST (05:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1994, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMCI 070509 SVREAX MOC083-070600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 1109 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN HENRY COUNTY AT 1105 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 WEST OF CLINTON MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THE CITIES OF LA DUE AND CLINTON ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
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 6, 9:34 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
MOZ011>013-020>022-028-029-031-037-043-KSZ102>105-070422- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 930 PM CST SUN MAR 7 1994 THUNDERSTORMS FORMING RAPIDLY IN THE METRO AREA... SINCE 9 PM THUNDERSTORMS HAD CROPPED UP OVER THE SOUTH PARTS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. THE STORMS HAD DEVELOPED ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR CARROLLTON MISSOURI THROUGH THE LEES SUMMIT AREA AND INTO JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS. ONE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DESOTO KANSAS IN NORTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WIND AND SMALL HAIL AREA LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE IN 8THE LOCAL AREA...ALONG WITH THE SHOWERS ALREADY PRESENT OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS.
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 9:36 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
MOZ011>013-020>022-028-029-031-037-043-KSZ102>105-070422- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 930 PM CST SUN MAR 7 1994 THUNDERSTORMS FORMING RAPIDLY IN THE METRO AREA... SINCE 9 PM THUNDERSTORMS HAD CROPPED UP OVER THE SOUTH PARTS OF THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA. THE STORMS HAD DEVELOPED ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR CARROLLTON MISSOURI THROUGH THE LEES SUMMIT AREA AND INTO JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS. ONE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DESOTO KANSAS IN NORTHWEST JOHNSON COUNTY KANSAS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WIND AND SMALL HAIL AREA LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED JUST ABOUT ANYWHERED IN THE LOCAL AREA...ALONG WITH THE SHOWERS ALREADY PRESENT OVER NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST KANSAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 52 min |
| Mar 6, 10:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 40 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.