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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Springfield, MO

March 6, 1994Jasper County, Newton County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1994, 8:07 PM CST for Jasper County, Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 1994, 8:07 PM CST (02:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1994, 9:15 PM CST
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jasper County, MO, Newton County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 51 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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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, Mar 6, 8:02 PM CST, 5 minutes before

MOC145-070300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
800 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994

RADAR AT 755 PM CST INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE FROM 10
MILES SOUTHEAST OF JOPLIN MISSOURI NEAR BAXTER SPRINGS TO 20 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF JOPLIN NEAR NEOSHO. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING
EAST 15 MPH. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM IN THIS LINE WAS NEAR NEOSHO.

PEOPLE IN THE COUNTIES OF NEWTON AND SOUTHERN JASPER SHOULD EXPECT HAIL
AND TORRENTIAL RAIN AS THESE TUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS JASPER AND
NEWTON COUNTIES UNTIL 830 PM TONIGHT.

PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD MONITOR TV...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR
FURTHER UPDATES ON THESE STORMS.  A WARNING MAY BE ISSUED SOON.

LEE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 8:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence	55 min
Mar 6, 9:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	65 min
Mar 6, 9:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	57 min
Mar 6, 9:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	69 min
Mar 6, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	60 min
Mar 6, 10:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	61 min
Mar 6, 11:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	60 min
Mar 6, 11:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone	60 min
Mar 6, 11:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	66 min
Mar 7, 12:25 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	4 hr

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.