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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Springfield, MO

April 26, 1994Barton County, Cedar County, Dade County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1994, 6:34 PM CDT for Barton County, Cedar County, Dade County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 26, 1994, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 1994, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 75 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1994-04-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 985 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1994-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 231 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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, Apr 26, 4:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMcDonald, Newton55 min
Apr 26, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarry, Lawrence65 min
Apr 26, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTexas, Wright68 min
Apr 26, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFJasper69 min
Apr 26, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFWebster56 min
Apr 26, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFPolk56 min
Apr 26, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFChristian, Greene, Polk66 min

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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.