Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 10:02 PM CDT for Greene County, Missouri. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 27, 4:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-280110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 409 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 483 FOR A PART OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 11 PM... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... VERNON...BARTON...JASPER...NEWTON...CEDAR...DADE...AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF JOPLIN...STOCKTON...MT VERNON...NEVADA ...AND NEOSHO. RIDDLE
Local storm report, May 27, 6:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
616 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0607 PM 5NE JOPLIN MO 1.75 INCH HAIL, 60 MPH WIND.
05/27/95 JASPER GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60
MPH WIND AT 15 MILE MARKER OF
I-44.
STORM DECREASED RAPIDLY AFTER HAIL FELL.
RUNNELSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 53 min |
| May 27, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 27 min |
| May 27, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 48 min |
| May 27, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Webster | 47 min |
| May 27, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Greene, Webster | 25 min |
| May 27, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 43 min |
| May 27, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Polk | 53 min |
| May 27, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Webster | 36 min |
| May 27, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Lawrence, Newton | 39 min |
| May 27, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 30 min |
| May 27, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Webster | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.