Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1994, 11:15 PM CST for Stone County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1994, 11:15 PM CST (05:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1994, 12:15 AM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stone County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 070518 RRA SVRSGF MOC119-145-209-070615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1115 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...MCDONALD COUNTY...NEWTON COUNTY...STONE COUNTY RADAR AT 1110 PM CST CONTINUED TO INDICATE DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS IN A 15 MILE WIDE LINE ACROSS SOUTHERN NEWTON...EXTREME NORTHEAST MCDONALD...TO SOUTHERN BARRY TO CENTRAL STONE COUNTY. THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 15 MPH. SENECA...NEOSHO...POWELL...CASSVILLE...SHELL KNOB...AND KIMBERLING CITY ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. PEOPLE BOATING ON TABLE ROCK LAKE SHOULD MOVE TO SHORE WHILE THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LEE
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, Mar 6, 8:02 PM CST, 3 hours 13 minutes before
MOC145-070300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 800 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 RADAR AT 755 PM CST INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JOPLIN MISSOURI NEAR BAXTER SPRINGS TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JOPLIN NEAR NEOSHO. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST 15 MPH. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM IN THIS LINE WAS NEAR NEOSHO. PEOPLE IN THE COUNTIES OF NEWTON AND SOUTHERN JASPER SHOULD EXPECT HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAIN AS THESE TUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES UNTIL 830 PM TONIGHT. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD MONITOR TV...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THESE STORMS. A WARNING MAY BE ISSUED SOON. LEE
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 9:02 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
MOC105-070400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 900 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 AT 855 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER LACLEDE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST 20 MPH. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM IN THE COUNTY WAS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEBANON. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS LEBANON BY 915 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND STRONG GUSTY WIND AS THEY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE AREA. PEOPLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO COVER IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LEE
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 10:29 PM CST, 46 minutes before
MOC077-105-167-225-229-070530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1025 PM CST SUN MAR 6 1994 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 1020 PM CST INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM GREENE COUNTY NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN POLK...WEBSTER...WRIGHT...AND LACLEDE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 20 MPH. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS IN THIS AREA WAS NEAR FAIR GROVE...PLEASANT HOPE...CONWAY AND LYNCHBURG. PEOPLE SHOULD EXPECT HAIL...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN AS THE STRONGER STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THESE STORMS. A WARNING MAY BE NECESSARY. LEE Z
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 8:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 68 min |
| Mar 6, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence | 55 min |
| Mar 6, 9:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 65 min |
| Mar 6, 9:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 57 min |
| Mar 6, 9:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 69 min |
| Mar 6, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 60 min |
| Mar 6, 10:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 61 min |
| Mar 6, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 60 min |
| Mar 6, 11:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 66 min |
| Mar 7, 12:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 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.