Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1994, 1:25 AM CDT for Jasper County, McDonald County, Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1994, 1:25 AM CDT (06:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1994, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 497 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
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, 10:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-070450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1047 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994 AT 1035 PM THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER POLK...GREEN ...DALLAS...WEBSTER AND WRIGHT COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN OVER THOSE COUNTIES THROUGH MIDNIGHT. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTHWEST VERNON COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEVADA. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BARTON...CEDAR...VDADE...VERNON...GREENE...WEBSTER...WRIGHT... CHRISTIAN AND DOUGLAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH HALF OF MISSOURI FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT.... NINE
Special weather statement, May 7, 12:45 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-070650- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1245 AM CDT SAT MAY 7 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 1240 AM...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF JOPLIN NEAR TIFF CITY MISSOURI TO NEAR JOPLIN. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTEAST 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CITY OF JOPLIN...NEOSHO...AND PINEVILLE BY 115 AM. PEOPLE SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WIND AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY UNTIL 130 AM. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 145 AM. LEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone | 57 min |
| May 6, 7:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Vernon | 6 hr |
| May 6, 7:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Webster, Wright | 6 hr |
| May 6, 7:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Dade, Greene | 6 hr |
| May 6, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 30 min |
| May 7, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 57 min |
| May 7, 1:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade, Polk, Vernon | 5 hr |
| May 7, 1:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dallas, Greene, Webster | 5 hr |
| May 7, 1:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Wright | 5 hr |
| May 7, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 47 min |
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.