Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1994, 7:13 PM CDT for Grundy County, Livingston County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1994, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1994, 7:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grundy County, MO, Livingston County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1667 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 250014 SVRMCI MOC079-117-250100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 713 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHEASTERN GRUNDY COUNTY ...NORTHEASTERN LIVINGSTON COUNTY AT 713 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF LAREDO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WILL AFFECT AREAS JUST NORTHEAST OF CHULA. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILD4ING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, May 24, 4:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
MOZ001>007-011>016-020>023-028>031-037-038-043-044-053-054-067- KSZ057-060-102>105-242300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 455 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHCENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 455 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST NORTH OF MILAN AND JUST EAST OF HAMILTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THE POTENTIAL REMAINS FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS ACROSS NORTHWEST AND WEST-CENTRAL MISSOURI. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP MAY QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE. BB/SR
Local storm report, May 24, 5:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY, MO
503 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994
COUNTY TIME LOCATION EVENT
CARROLL 440PM MIAMI STATION DIME-SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
PRIVATE CITIZEN
APROX ST CLAIR MO TREES DOWN IN LOWRY CITY
210 AM
JULYLocal storm report, May 24, 5:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY, MO
516 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994
COUNTY TIME LOCATION EVENT
CARROLL 440PM MIAMI STATION GOLFBALL-SIZE HAIL IN MIAMI
STATION PRODUCED DAMAGE TO AT
LEAST ONE AUTOMOBILE. REPORTED
BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.
BB
PREVIOUS STORM REPORT CONTAINED AN ERRONEOUS REPORT FOR ST CLAIR
COUNTY. THAT REPORT SHOULD BE DISCOUNTED.Local storm report, May 24, 5:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY, MO
516 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994
COUNTY TIME LOCATION EVENT
CARROLL 440PM MIAMI STATION GOLFBALL-SIZE HAIL IN MIAMI
STATION PRODUCED DAMAGE TO AT
LEAST ONE AUTOMOBILE. REPORTED
BY SHERIFFS OFFICE.
BB
PREVIOUS STORM REPORT CONTAINED AN ERRONEOUS REPORT FOR ST CLAIR
COUNTY. THAT REPORT SHOULD BE DISCOUNTED.Special weather statement, May 24, 5:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
MOZ005>007-015-016-242335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 534 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL IOWA TOWARDS NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 532 PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SULLIVAN COUNTY 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF MILAN MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS RINGGOLD AND DECATUR COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN IOWA AND WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO MERCER AND NORTHEAST HARRISON COUNTIES IN NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI BY 6 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR MUCH OF NORTHCENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. BB
Special weather statement, May 24, 5:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
MOZ005>007-015-016-242335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 534 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL IOWA TOWARDS NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 532 PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SULLIVAN COUNTY 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF MILAN MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS RINGGOLD AND DECATUR COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN IOWA AND WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO MERCER AND NORTHEAST HARRISON COUNTIES IN NORTHCENTRAL MISSOURI BY 6 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR MUCH OF NORTHCENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. BB
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.