Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1994, 3:02 AM CDT for Benton County, Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1994, 3:02 AM CDT (08:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1994, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benton County, MO, Morgan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
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, Apr 27, 10:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 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, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Camden, Miller | 52 min |
| 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, 3:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 7:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Pulaski | 117 min |
| Apr 27, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 4 hr |
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.