Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 1994, 5:47 PM CDT for Texas County, Missouri. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1994, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Texas County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1167 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 272248 TORSGF MOC215-272345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 547 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...SOUTHERN TEXAS COUNTY AT 545 PM...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED JUST EAST OF MOUNTAIN GROVE OR 60 MILES EAST OF SPRINFIELD. A TORNADO WAS ALSO REPORTED JUST WEST OF WEST PLAINS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE TOWNS OF WEST PLAINS...WILLOW SPRINGS...CABOOL AND SUMMERSVILLE 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. JOHNSON &
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, Apr 27, 2:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 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, 3 hours 4 minutes 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
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, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 41 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, 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.