Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 12, 1995, 9:07 PM CST for Barry County, Missouri. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 1995, 9:07 PM CST (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 1995, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barry County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 130308 RRA SVRSGF MOC009-130415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 907 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...BARRY COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI OR JUST SOUTH OF SELIGMAN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF SELIGMAN...WAYNE...CASSVILLE...AND JENKINS THROUGH 10 PM. 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. LINDENBERG
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.
NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 12, 2:39 PM CST, 6 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 2:39 PM CST, 6 hours 28 minutes before
SOUTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 238 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 SFC COLD FNT AT 20Z IRK-SZL-JLN LINE MOVING EAST. LOWER SC CLDS AHEAD OF FNT WITH HIGH CLDS BEHIND FNT. KSGF 88D AND UMN RADAR PPINE. GOING WITH STRONGER NGM/AVN HERE AS STRONG JET AT 300 MB PLOWS INTO TX DEVELOPING NRLY CLOSED OFF LOW LOUISIANA COAST BY FRI MORNING. FOR TONIGHT...FRONT WILL MOVE EAST AND LIE IN SE MO BY MORNING. AS UPR LOW DEVELOPS MORE THIS SEND STRONG SRLY FLOW NORTHWARD FROM GULF AND CREATE OVERRUNING RAIN ALONG AND BEHIND FRONT FOR THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF STATE. CHC OF ANY SVR WX WILL STAY TO OUR SOUTH. RAIN AREA WILL EXPAND RAPIDLY LATER TONIGHT AND CONTINUE INTO FRI EVENING. THE BIG ? THIS FCST PACKAGE IS WHERE WESTERN EDGE OF RAIN WILL SET UP. SHOULD BE SHARP BOUNDARY. NGM A BIT WETTER AND HAS PRECIP A TAD FARTHER WEST THAN ETA. CURRENT FCST LOOKS GOOD WITH 50 POPS LATE TONIGHT AND FRI FOR COU TO SGF AREA...WITH UNQUALIFIED POPS W PLNS TO CGI. RAIN AREA TO PUSH EAST OUT OF AREA FRI NIGHT. CLDS WILL LIKELY HOLD FOR MOST OF SATURDAY HOWEVER. GOING WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER FWC MOS TEMPS FOR FRI HIGHS BUT GOING FAN FOR LOWS FRI NIGHT DUE TO CLDS. SGF WE 043/047 038/046 034 06353 JLN CE 042/048 036/048 033 06232 RIDDLE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 8:43 PM CST, 24 minutes before
MOZ095-102-103-130345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 843 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 835 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THESE STORMS WERE IN A LINE STRETCHING FROM NEAR ROLLA TO ABOUT 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR SELIGMAN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. LINDENBERG
Special weather statement, Jan 12, 8:44 PM CST, 23 minutes before
MOZ095-102-103-130345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 843 PM CST THU JAN 12 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 835 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THESE STORMS WERE IN A LINE STRETCHING FROM NEAR ROLLA TO ABOUT 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR SELIGMAN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. LINDENBERG
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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.