Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1994, 5:25 PM CDT for Barry County, Lawrence County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1994, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1994, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barry County, MO, Lawrence County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 3 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
- 985 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 262226 SVRSGF MOC009-109-262330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 525 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...BARRY COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 525 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHWEST BARRY COUNTY NEAR MONETT SOUTHWEST TO PINEVILLE IN CENTRAL MCDONALD COUNTY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TO LAWERENCE COUNTY BY 535 PM CDT. LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM THESE STORMS. 3/4 HAIL WAS REPORTED IN MCDONALD COUNTY IN ANDERSON...AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN MONETT. 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 T8HE STORM HAS PASSED. DAVIS &
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, Apr 26, 4:33 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-262300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 435 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STARTING TO MOVE INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 430 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 25 MILES SOUTH OF JOPLIN MISSOURI MOVING NORTHEAST 45 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS MONETT BY 445 PM. OTHER TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE NEOSHO...DIAMOND...AND SARCOXIE. THIS STORM WAS STILL DEVELOPING AND WILL CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLE HAIL. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER CALL YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. LEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 55 min |
| Apr 26, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas, Wright | 68 min |
| Apr 26, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 69 min |
| Apr 26, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade | 56 min |
| Apr 26, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 56 min |
| Apr 26, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 56 min |
| Apr 26, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Polk | 66 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.