Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1994, 6:24 PM CDT for Dent County, Missouri. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1994, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1994, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dent County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 985 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSTL 262325 SVRSTL MOC065-270030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 624 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...DENT COUNTY AT 620 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LICKING ...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALEM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST 35 MPH AND WILL REACH THE SALEM AREA AROUND 655 PM. STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. GLASS
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 26, 5:25 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
MOZ001>115-KSZ102>105-ILZ095>102-270025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 525 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL...AND PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 1100 PM TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST ...CENTRAL...AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 1100 PM TONIGHT. LARGER CITIES INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH ARE COLUMBIA... SPRINGFIELD...BRANSON...JOPLIN...SEDALIA...ROLLA...JEFFERSON CITY... ...UNION AND LEBANON. AT 520 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED EXPLOSIVE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI...ROUGHLY FROM NEAR FORT LEONARD WOOD TO JOPLIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. INIDICATIONS ARE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AND DEVELOP INTO CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE STATE OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. GLASS
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 5:48 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
MOZ024-025-032-033-039>042-045>051-055>059-068>070-262340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MO 540 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH HALF OF CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 535 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING UP INTO THE SOUTH COUNTIES OF CENTRAL MISSOURI...AROUND LEBANON IN LACLEDE COUNTY 60 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON CITY...AND ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF FORT LEONARD WOOD IN PULASKI COUNTY. THE COMMUNITIES OF WANESVILLE AND RICHLAND WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS BETWEEN 600 AND 615 PM CDT. IF YOU OBSERVE SEVERE STORMS...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY...THEN CALL THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENC:Y TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. DO NOT STAY OUTDOORS IF YOU SEE STRONG STORMS APPROACHING YOUR AREA. LB
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:14 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
MOZ061-063-ILZ098-099-270015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 614 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE ST LOUIS AREA... AT 610 PM...NWS RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN ST CHARLES COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN CALHOUN COUNTY ILLINOIS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE ST LOUIS AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PONDING OF WATER MAY ALSO OCCUR ON AREA ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS AND RESIDENTS ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE ST LOUIS METRO AREA SHOULD KEEP A~DVISED TO THE LATEST STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. GLASS
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.