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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1994, 1:07 PM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1994, 1:07 PM CDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1994, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Christian County, MO, Greene County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Stone County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 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 061811 TORSGF MOC043-077-109-209-061915- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 107 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...WESTERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY...SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTY ...EASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY...NORTHERN STONE COUNTY AT 110 PM A PUBLIC REPORT WAS MADE OF A FUNNEL SOUTHEAST OF MT VERNON 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THE CITIES OF REPUBLIC...BILLINGS...CHESAPEAKE AND HURLEY ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR <BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. NINE &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, May 6, 7:31 AM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-011000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 730 AM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN POLK COUNTY MISSOURI... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES NORTH OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI NEAR POLK AT 725 AM. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST 30 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS BENNETT SPRINGS TO LEBANON BY 745 AM. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN.t..STRONG GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLE HAIL. LEE
Special weather statement, May 6, 9:11 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-051600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 910 AM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994 THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW OF THEM STRONG AND PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...WERE LOCATED NORTH OF A LINE FROM HOUSTON IN TEXAS COUNTY TO LAMAR IN BARTON COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. STORMS THAT WERE ESPECIALLY STRONG WERE LOCATED NORTH OF BUFFALO IN NORTHERN DALLAS COUNTY NEAR PLAD...IN SOUTHEAST POLK COUNTY NORTH OF PLEASANT HOPE AND IN NORTHERN DADE COUNTY NORTH OF DADEVILLE. THE AREAS AROUND LEBANON...ASH GROVE AND MARSHFIELD SHOULD EXPECT PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS BETWEEN 9 AND 11 AM CDT. NINE
Special weather statement, May 6, 10:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-061745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1055 AM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT SHORTLY BEFORE 11 AM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF THE REGION. THEY WERE NORTH OF A LINE FROM LEBANON TO GREENFIELD TO JOPLIN. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS STILL IN KANSAS TO THE WEST OF LAMAR...GENERALLY IN THE AREA AROUND PITTSBURG...GIRARD AND PARSONS. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR FLASH FLOODING BEFORE 1 PM IS IN BARTON COUNTY AROUND LIBERAL...LAMAR AND GOLDEN CITY. PEOPLE IN THOSE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ANY RAPID RISE ALONG SMALL STREAMS. ESPECIALLY AVOID DRIVING INTO WATER ACROSS ROADS THAT ARE NOT ABSOLUTLY FAMILIAR. NINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 65 min |
| May 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone | 65 min |
| May 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 65 min |
| May 6, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Taney, Webster | 66 min |
| May 6, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone | 66 min |
| May 6, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 62 min |
| May 6, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Dade | 37 min |
| May 6, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Dade, Greene, Polk | 62 min |
| May 6, 4:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Dade, Greene | 5 hr |
| May 6, 4:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 5 hr |
| May 6, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Webster | 68 min |
| May 6, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence, Stone | 68 min |
| May 6, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar | 39 min |
| May 6, 6:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Webster, Wright | 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.