Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1994, 4:20 PM CDT for Reynolds County, Missouri. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1994, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reynolds County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 912 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 022123 SVRSTL MOC065-179-022215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 420 PM CDT THU JUN 2 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHEAST DENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI ...REYNOLDS COUNTY AT 420 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CENTERVILLE AND 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALEM. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND ONE INCH DIAMETER HAIL. IF YOU LIVE IN THE TOWNS OF CENTERVILLE AND REYNOLDS BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. GLASS/TRUETT
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, 2 hours 45 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, 2 hours 45 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, 2 hours 42 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 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, 1 hour 48 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, 1 hour 45 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, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Dent | 66 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.