Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1994, 8:49 PM CDT for Dallas County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1994, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1994, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dallas County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 2552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 270150 SVRSGF MOC059-270230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 849 PM CDT TUE APR 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...DALLAS COUNTY AT 850 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR MARCH AND FOOSE IN SOUTHWEST DALLAS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 3O MPH AND WILL REACH BUFFALO BY 9 PM CDT. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A ST8RONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 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, 4 hours 16 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, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas, Wright | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Lawrence | 67 min |
| Apr 27, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede, Webster | 57 min |
| Apr 27, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 69 min |
| Apr 27, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk | 66 min |
| Apr 27, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 65 min |
| Apr 27, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Taney | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 59 min |
| Apr 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 65 min |
| Apr 27, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Texas | 58 min |
| Apr 27, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon, Shannon | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Carter | 58 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.