Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS St. Louis, MO
NWS St. Louis, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1994, 3:40 PM CDT for Pike County, Ralls County, Missouri; Pike County, Illinois. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1994, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS St. Louis, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pike County, IL, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 347 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
- 1873 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 222040 SVRSTL ILC149-MOC163-173-222130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 340 PM CDT WED JUN 22 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ...WESTERN PIKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI ...RALLS COUNTY AT 339 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEW LONDON...ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF HANNIBAL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF SAVERTON...NEW LONDON AND NEW CANTON BY 415 PM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 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. SHEA/METZE
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 22, 2:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
MOZ008>010-017>019-222120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 216 PM CDT WED JUN 22 1994 A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER KNOX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI...ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF KIRKSVILLE THIS AFTERNOON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF EDINA...KNOX CITY AND NEWARK BY 245 PM. COMMUNITIES IN LEWIS COUNTY CAN ALSO EXPECT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS THESE MOVE IN. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN SEEMS TO BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. SHEA
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
MOZ008>010-017>019-222120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 216 PM CDT WED JUN 22 1994 A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER KNOX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSOURI...ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF KIRKSVILLE THIS AFTERNOON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF EDINA...KNOX CITY AND NEWARK BY 245 PM. COMMUNITIES IN LEWIS COUNTY CAN ALSO EXPECT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS THESE MOVE IN. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN SEEMS TO BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. SHEA
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
MOZ041-042-050-051-222030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 228 PM CDT WED JUN 22 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ARE MOVING INTO EASTCENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 225PM THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF MOBERLY...TO MEXICO...TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF MEXICO NEAR FULTON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20MPH. PEOPLE IN AUDRAIN...MONTGOMERY...AND EASTERN CALLAWAY COUNTIES CAN EXPECT THESE STORMS TO AFFECT THEM THROUGH 330PM. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. REAUGH
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
MOZ041-042-050-051-222030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA MISSOURI 228 PM CDT WED JUN 22 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ARE MOVING INTO EASTCENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 225PM THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF MOBERLY...TO MEXICO...TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF MEXICO NEAR FULTON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20MPH. PEOPLE IN AUDRAIN...MONTGOMERY...AND EASTERN CALLAWAY COUNTIES CAN EXPECT THESE STORMS TO AFFECT THEM THROUGH 330PM. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV SJTATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. REAUGH
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:58 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
MOZ035-036-222100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 258 PM CDT WED JUN 22 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 254 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO RALLS AND PIKE COUNTIES IN MISSOURI...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HANNIBAL. THESE STORM WERE MOVING EASTERLY AT 15 MPH...AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE PERRY...BOWLING GREEN...NEW HARTFORD...AND CLARKSVILLE. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY WHEN STORMS APPROACH. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. METZE
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:59 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
MOZ035-036-222100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 258 PM CDT WED JUN 22 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 254 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO RALLS AND PIKE COUNTIES IN MISSOURI...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HANNIBAL. THESE STORM WERE MOVING EASTERLY AT 15 MPH...AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE PERRY...BOWLING GREEN...NEW HARTFORD...AND CLARKSVILLE. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY WHEN STORMS APPROACH. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. METZE
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.