Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1994, 4:49 PM CDT for Bates County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1994, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1994, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bates County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMCI 022150 SVREAX MOC013-022230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 449 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHERN BATES COUNTY AT 448PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ANSTERDAM MISSOURI IN NORTHWEST BATES COUNTY MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IN ADDITION...THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS STROM WILL CAUSE SOME LOCAL FLOODING. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR BUTLER AND ALTONA ALSO IN BATES COUNTY...ALSO MOVING SLOWLY EAST. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. 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, Jun 2, 3:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
MOZ028>031-037-038-043-044-053-054-067-KSZ057-060-103>105-022105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 301 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...STRONG WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL ACROSS SOUTHERN BATES COUNTY... AT 3 PM CDT TRONG THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF SOUTHERN BATES COUNTY...GENERALLY ALONG A HIGHWAY WEST OF RICH HILL AND EAST ALONG B HIGHWAY EAST OF RICH HILL. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR WITH THESE STORMS. ALTHOUGH THE GROUND IS RELATIVELY DRY...THE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO LIKELY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING TO THE WEST NEAR PLEASANTON AND JUST SOUTH OF LA CYGNE IN LINN COUNTY OF EASTERN KANSAS. PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN BATES MISSOURI AND EASTERN LINN COUNTY KANSAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. BB/DB
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
MOZ028>031-037-038-043-044-053-054-067-KSZ057-060-103>105-022105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 301 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...STRONG WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL ACROSS SOUTHERN BATES COUNTY... AT 3 PM CDT TRONG THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF SOUTHERN BATES COUNTY...GENERALLY ALONG A HIGHWAY WEST OF RICH HILL AND EAST ALONG B HIGHWAY EAST OF RICH HILL. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR WITH THESE STORMS. ALTHOUGH THE GROUND IS RELATIVELY DRY...THE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO LIKELY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING TO THE WEST NEAR PLEASANTON AND JUST SOUTH OF LA CYGNE IN LINN COUNTY OF EASTERN KANSAS. PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN BATES MISSOURI AND EASTERN LINN COUNTY KANSAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. BB/DB
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:50 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
MOZ001>007-011>016-020>023-028>031-037-038-043-044-053-054-067- KSZ057-060-102>105-022145- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 350 PM CDT THU JUN 2 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 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND EARLY TONIGHT FOR EXTREME SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA... LATE THIS AFTERNOON...A STATIONARY FRONT WAS LOCATED FROM LINN COUNTY IN KANSAS...EAST TO NEAR CLINTON IN HENRY COUNTY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT IN BATES...HENRY AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES IN MISSOURI AND LINN COUNTY IN KANSAS. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THIS EVENING AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREAT IS LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN BATES...HENRY AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES IN KANSAS AND LINN COUNTY IN KANSAS. BEUSTERIEN
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:51 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
MOZ053-054-067-KSZ060-022155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 351 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PERSIST ACROSS LINN COUNTY KANSAS AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF WEST-CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 348 PM RADAR DETECTED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MOUND CITY IN LINN COUNTY KANSAS EAST ACROSS BATES AND HENRY COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR PLEASANTON KANSAS...JUST SOUTH OF BUTLER...AND NEAR DEEPWATER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. PEOPLE IN LINN COUNTY KANSAS...AND BATES...HENRY...AND ST. CLAIR COUNTIES IN WEST-CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS IS LIKELY. REMEMBER...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS A ROAD THAT IS FLOODED. BOATERS ON TRUMAN RESERVOIR SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE HARBOR IN ADVANCE OF THE APPROACH OF THESE STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE IN THESE COUNTIES THROGH 6 PM. BB
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:51 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
MOZ053-054-067-KSZ060-022155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 351 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PERSIST ACROSS LINN COUNTY KANSAS AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF WEST-CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 348 PM RADAR DETECTED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MOUND CITY IN LINN COUNTY KANSAS EAST ACROSS BATES AND HENRY COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR PLEASANTON KANSAS...JUST SOUTH OF BUTLER...AND NEAR DEEPWATER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. PEOPLE IN LINN COUNTY KANSAS...AND BATES...HENRY...AND ST. CLAIR COUNTIES IN WEST-CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS IS LIKELY. REMEMBER...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS A ROAD THAT IS FLOODED. BOATERS ON TRUMAN RESERVOIR SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE HARBOR IN ADVANCE OF THE APPROACH OF THESE STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE IN THESE COUNTIES THROGH 6 PM. BB
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:52 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
MOZ053-054-067-KSZ060-022155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 351 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PERSIST ACROSS LINN COUNTY KANSAS AND ADJACENT SECTIONS OF WEST-CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 348 PM RADAR DETECTED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MOUND CITY IN LINN COUNTY KANSAS EAST ACROSS BATES AND HENRY COUNTIES IN MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR PLEASANTON KANSAS...JUST SOUTH OF BUTLER...AND NEAR DEEPWATER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. PEOPLE IN LINN COUNTY KANSAS...AND BATES...HENRY...AND ST. CLAIR COUNTIES IN WEST-CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS IS LIKELY. REMEMBER...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS A ROAD THAT IS FLOODED. BOATERS ON TRUMAN RESERVOIR SHOULD MOVE TO SAFE HARBOR IN ADVANCE OF THE APPROACH OF THESE STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE IN THESE COUNTIES THROGH 6 PM. BB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries | 19 min |
| Jun 2, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Camden, Miller, Pulaski | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.