Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1994, 2:39 PM CDT for Dent County, Missouri. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1994, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1994, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dent County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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
- 817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 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 KSTL 021942 SVRSTL MOC065-022045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 239 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...DENT COUNTY AT 239 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SALEM...WHICH IS ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROLLA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND WILL EFFECT SALEM AND GLADDEN. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RA(IN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. FG/ST
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, 1:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
MOZ024-025-032-033-039>042-045>051-055>059-068>070-021930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 135 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 130 PM...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE BUILDING ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT TRAILING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS TO NEAR ROLLA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND GRADUALLY BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL PORTION OF THE REGION. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY GROW TO SEVERE PROPORTIONS AND RESIDENTS IN CENTC)|TIONS AND RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ARE URGED TO LISTEN TO WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PERLOW
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
MOZ024-025-032-033-039>042-045>051-055>059-068>070-021930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 135 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 130 PM...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE BUILDING ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT TRAILING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS TO NEAR ROLLA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND GRADUALLY BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL PORTION OF THE REGION. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY GROW TO SEVERE PROPORTIONS AND RESIDENTS IN CENTC)|TIONS AND RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ARE URGED TO LISTEN TO WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PERLOW
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
MOZ024-025-032-033-039>042-045>051-055>059-068>070-021930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 135 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 130 PM...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE BUILDING ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT TRAILING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS TO NEAR ROLLA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND GRADUALLY BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL PORTION OF THE REGION. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY GROW TO SEVERE PROPOR|TIONS AND RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL MISSOURI ARE URGED TO LISTEN TO WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PERLOW
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:32 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
MOZ083-071-022030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 232 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE ROLLA AREA... AT 230 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED WITHIN A 25 MILE RADIUS OF ROLLA. ONE STRONG STORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF ROLLA...WITH ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG STORMS EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROLLA TO NEAR SALEM. THE STRONG STORMS IN THIS AREA ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL...AS THEY DRIFT SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING OF THESE STORMS IS POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN PHELPS AND DENT COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. TRUETT
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:35 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
MOZ083-071-022030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 232 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE ROLLA AREA... AT 230 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED WITHIN A 25 MILE RADIUS OF ROLLA. ONE STRONG STORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF ROLLA...WITH ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG STORMS EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROLLA TO NEAR SALEM. THE STRONG STORMS IN THIS AREA ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL...AS THEY DRIFT SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING OF THESE STORMS IS POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN PHELPS AND DENT COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. TRUETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS St. Louis, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Dent | 28 min |
| Jun 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Reynolds | 45 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.