Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 10:02 PM CDT for Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 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 125 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
- 2328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 12.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 050303 SVRSGF MOC229-050345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1002 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...WRIGHT COUNTY ...TORNADO WATCH IN AFFECT UNTIL 1 AM... ...AT 1002 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF GROVESPRING OR 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARTVILLE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT GROVESPRING BY 1010 PM AND ST GE GAND MANES BY 1020 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSID0E 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. GORDON
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, Jul 4, 5:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
MOZ066-078-042310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 507 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 505 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED 15 MILES EAST OF NEVADA. IT WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH INTO THE ELDORADO SPRINGS AREA BETWEEN 515 AND 530 PM. IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING...THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 8 PM. RUNNELS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 5:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
MOZ066-078-042310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 507 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 505 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED 15 MILES EAST OF NEVADA. IT WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH INTO THE ELDORADO SPRINGS AREA BETWEEN 515 AND 530 PM. IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING...THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 8 PM. RUNNELS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 6:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-050130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 625 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 615 THE MOST IMMEDIATE THREAT TO RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI WERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH INTO THE FAR WESTERN COUNTIES OF MISSOURI...AFFECTING AREAS PRIMARILY FROM JOPLIN TO NEVADA BETWEEN 7 AND 730 PM. ALL RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NWR OR COMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE LASTEST ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION AS STORMS MAY RAPIDLY DEVELOP AND TURN SEVERE THIS EVENING. TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR NEARLY ALL OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI TO THE WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR AREAS OFF TO THE EAST OF SPRINGFIELD. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THE STORMS MAY ALSO LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLASH FLOODING AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. RUNNELS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 6:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-050130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 625 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 ...THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 615 THE MOST IMMEDIATE THREAT TO RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI WERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH INTO THE FAR WESTERN COUNTIES OF MISSOURI...AFFECTING AREAS PRIMARILY FROM JOPLIN TO NEVADA BETWEEN 7 AND 730 PM. ALL RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NWR OR COMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR THE LASTEST ON THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION AS STORMS MAY RAPIDLY DEVELOP AND TURN SEVERE THIS EVENING. TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR NEARLY ALL OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI TO THE WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR AREAS OFF TO THE EAST OF SPRINGFIELD. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THE STORMS MAY ALSO LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLASH FLOODING AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. RUNNELS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 17 min |
| Jul 4, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Taney | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Webster | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.