Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT for Barton County, Cedar County, Dade County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1995, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 172201 SVRSGF MOC011-039-057-172230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 500 PM CDT MON APR 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...EASTERN BARTON COUNTY...CEDAR COUNTY ...NORTHWESTERN DADE COUNTY AT 458 PM CDT...SPRINGFIELD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE CITY OF LAMAR. THE BARTON COUNTY SHERRIFF OFFICE REPORTED WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH JUST OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF LAMAR. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. JERICO SPRINGS...MILFORD... ARCOLA...AND STOCKTON ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 17, 2:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-172135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 232 PM CDT MON APR 17 1995 ...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT 225 PM...DOPPLER RADAR FROM SPRINGFIELD WAS SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI WEST OF A WEST PLAINS TO LEBANON LINE. A LINE OF STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY STRETCHING ACROSS NORTHERN OKLAHOMA. THIS FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BEGIN LIFTING NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT THIS AFTERNOON DRAWING MORE MOIST UNSTABLE AIR INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN WESTERN TEXAS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST THIS EVENING AND AS IT APPROACHES MISSOURI...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND THE POSSIBLITY FOR STORMS BECOMING SEVERE WILL INCREASE. CURRENTLY THERE ARE NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. REMEMBER THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA...FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. LINDENBERG
Special weather statement, Apr 17, 4:47 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-180050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 446 PM CDT MON APR 17 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH BARTON COUNTY... AT 441 PM...SPRINGFIELD DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH JUST WEST OF LAMAR...25 NORTH OF JOPLIN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL TRACK ACROSS NORTHWEST DADE COUNTY AND INTO CEDnAR COUNTY...REACHING THE TOWNS OF JERICO SPRINGS AND STOCKTON BETWEEN 515 AND 530 PM. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. RIDDLE
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.