Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1994, 8:03 PM CDT for Cole County, Miller County, Osage County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1994, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1994, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cole County, MO, Miller County, MO, Osage County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 307 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
- 2552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCOU 270104 TORCOU MOC051-131-151-270130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 803 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN COLE COUNTY...NORTHERN MILLER COUNTY ...WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY AT 800 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF JEFFERSON CITY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. A TRAILER WAS DESTRYED IN BRUMLEY IN SOUTHERN MILLER COUNTY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. LA GREE/BLANCHARD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Camden, Miller, Morgan | 53 min |
| Apr 26, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gasconade, Maries, Osage | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone, Callaway | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Moniteau | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Benton | 47 min |
| Apr 26, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Morgan | 53 min |
| Apr 26, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Apr 26, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cole, Osage | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Gasconade | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Callaway | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Camden | 49 min |
| Apr 26, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Maries, Miller | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper, Pettis | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Boone | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Audrain, Callaway | 61 min |
| Apr 27, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | St. Clair | 46 min |
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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.