Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1994, 1:23 AM CDT for Camden County, Miller County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1994, 1:23 AM CDT (06:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1994, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Camden County, MO, Miller County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 493 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 792 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 280636 COR SVRCOU MOC029-131-280715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 123 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...EASTERN CAMDEN COUNTY...MILLER COUNTY AT 120 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF OSAGE BEACH. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PASS THROUGH THE EAST END OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS THROUGH 140 AM AND PASS NEAR IBERIA IN MILLER COUNTY BY 200 AM. 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 COVERS THE ROAD. KENNEDY
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, Apr 27, 8:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
MOC013-037-047-083-095-165-177-185-KSC091-103-107-121-209-280220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 800 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 AT 8PM RADAR SHOWED A WIDE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM LAMONI IOWA TO MANHATTAN KANSAS ON THE NORTH...AND FROM THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF KANSAS TO COLUMBIA MISSOURI ON THE SOUTH. LOOKING FURTHER DOWN STREAM...MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER OKLAHOMA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST...MOVING OVER THE AREA WHERE HEAVIER RAINS HAD PREVIOUSLY FALLEN...AND LOOKS LIKE THIS TREND WILL CONTINUE. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER DOESNT APPEAR TO BE A THREAT OVERNITE...SOME LOCAL FLOODING WILL BE LIKELY OVER PARTS OF EAST KANSAS AND WEST MISSOURI. STAY TUNED.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 10:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
MOC013-037-047-083-095-165-177-185-KSC091-103-107-121-209-280220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 11 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS FOR TONITE AND THURSDAY MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS...ESTIMATED OFF RADAR...1 TO 2 INCHES EARLIER IN THE DAY AROUND THE KANSAS CITY METRO AREA...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1/2 INCH SINCE 9PM. 3 TO 4 INCHES HAVE FALLEN OVER SOUTHERN LINN COUNTY IN KANSAS AND OVER BATES...HENRY AND NORTHWEST ST CLAIR COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. /THATS ABOUT 65 MILES SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY\ . AT 11PM HEAVIER RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR CHANUTE ACROSS FT SCOTT KANSAS AND OVER TOWARD OSCEOLA MISSOURI. THERE IS LITTLE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER THESE AREAS...BUT IN AREAS THAT ARE FLOOD PRONE CAUTION SHOULD BE TAKEN. STAY TUNED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry, St. Clair | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Jackson | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Bates, Henry, St. Clair | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Camden, Maries, Miller, Morgan, Osage | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Benton | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Gasconade | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton, Morgan | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 3:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 7:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 117 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.