Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 7:43 PM CDT for Carter County, Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1994, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carter County, MO, Ripley County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 2572 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1145 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 280044 SVRSGF MOC035-181-280145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 743 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...CARTER COUNTY...RIPLEY COUNTY AT 740 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES WEST OF POPLAR BLUFF BETWEEN BRANDON AND DONIPHAN...MOVING EAST 35 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS FLATWOOD...FAIRDEALING...AND HUNTER. PEOPLE CAN EXPECT DAMAGING HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS FROM THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG 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. 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, Apr 27, 2:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-272005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 202 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 AT 200 PM...RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF JOPLIN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR OR JUST NORTH OF SOUTHWEST CITY BY 215 PM AND BE NEAR ANDERSON MISSOURI BY 230 PM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. SRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 2:43 PM CDT, 5 hours before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-272045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 240 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 AT 240 PM...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JOPLIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE MCDONALD AND SOUTHERN BARRY COUNTIES BY 300 PM. THE TOWNS OF ANDERSON...PINEVILLE...POWELL...CASSIVILLE...AND SHELL KNOB ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. THESE STROMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS...PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS. PEOPLE IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT...AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROA.CHES YOU. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 7:18 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-280130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 715 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 710 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF JOPLIN NEAR ELDORADO SPRINGS TO 35 MILES NORTH OF JOPLIN NEAR LIBERAL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 35 MPH. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS ELDORADO SPRINGS AMD LAMAR...TO JERICHO SPRINGS AND STOCKTON BY 735 PM. PEOPLE SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF MISSOURI. A SEVERE THUNDERSTO|RM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. LEE
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 7:31 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-280200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 730 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN CEDAR COUNTY... AT 725 PM...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES EAST OF NEVADA MISSOURI NEAR CAPLINGER MILLS. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN CAPLINGER MILLS...HUMANSVILLE...DUNNEGAN...AND FAIR PLAY SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS...HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WIND FROM THIS STORM. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN POLK COUNTY BY 745 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. LEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Vernon | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Wright | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon, Shannon | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 11:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Carter, Ripley | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.