Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1994, 3:23 PM CDT for Barton County, Dade County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1994, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1994, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barton County, MO, Dade County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 6, 10:58 AM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-061745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1055 AM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT SHORTLY BEFORE 11 AM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF THE REGION. THEY WERE NORTH OF A LINE FROM LEBANON TO GREENFIELD TO JOPLIN. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS STILL IN KANSAS TO THE WEST OF LAMAR...GENERALLY IN THE AREA AROUND PITTSBURG...GIRARD AND PARSONS. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR FLASH FLOODING BEFORE 1 PM IS IN BARTON COUNTY AROUND LIBERAL...LAMAR AND GOLDEN CITY. PEOPLE IN THOSE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ANY RAPID RISE ALONG SMALL STREAMS. ESPECIALLY AVOID DRIVING INTO WATER ACROSS ROADS THAT ARE NOT ABSOLUTLY FAMILIAR. NINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 65 min |
| May 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone | 65 min |
| May 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 65 min |
| May 6, 1:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone | 68 min |
| May 6, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Taney, Webster | 66 min |
| May 6, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone | 66 min |
| May 6, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 62 min |
| May 6, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Dade, Greene, Polk | 62 min |
| May 6, 4:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Dade, Greene | 5 hr |
| May 6, 4:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 5 hr |
| May 6, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Webster | 68 min |
| May 6, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence, Stone | 68 min |
| May 6, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar | 39 min |
| May 6, 6:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Webster, Wright | 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.