Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1994, 5:52 PM CDT for Boone County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1994, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1994, 6:33 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boone County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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, Jun 6, 1:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
MOZ001>007-011>016-020>023-028>031-037-038-043-044-053-054-067- KSZ057-060-102>105-071200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT MON JUN 6 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 THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN HENRY AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON...OTHERWISE NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. THE AIR MASS ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION HAS STABILIZED SLIGHTLY IN THE WAKE OF AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WHICH PASSED THROUGH PARTS OF THE REGION LAST NIGHT. THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WAS LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS HENRY AND ST CLAIR IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. DESPITE STRONG AFTERNOON HEATING...NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...AS SINKING MOTION IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND A LACK OF A FOCUSING MECHANISM PRECLUDE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. BEUSTERIEN
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 1:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
MOZ001>007-011>016-020>023-028>031-037-038-043-044-053-054-067- KSZ057-060-102>105-071200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 100 PM CDT MON JUN 6 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 THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN HENRY AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON...OTHERWISE NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. THE AIR MASS ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION HAS STABILIZED SLIGHTLY IN THE WAKE OF AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WHICH PASSED THROUGH PARTS OF THE REGION LAST NIGHT. THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WAS LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS HENRY AND ST CLAIR IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. DESPITE STRONG AFTERNOON HEATING...NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...AS SINKING MOTION IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND A LACK OF A FOCUSING MECHANISM PRECLUDJE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. BEUSTERIEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Callaway, Cole | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Moniteau | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Miami | 28 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.