Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1995, 6:21 AM CDT for Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1995, 6:21 AM CDT (11:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1995, 7:04 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wright County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1376 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 071122 RRA SVRSGF MOC229-071215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 621 AM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...WRIGHT COUNTY AT 620 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD WAS SHOWING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF GROVESPRING. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF GROVESPRING...AND HARTVILLE. 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:48 AM CDT, 33 minutes before
MOZ079>081-091-071150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 548 AM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO POLK AND DALLAS COUNTIES... AT 546 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD WAS SHOWING AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHERN POLK AND DALLAS COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINS ALONG WITH POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF URBANA...PUMPKIN CENTER...LOUISBURG AND POLK THROUGH 630 AM AND THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. LINDENBERG
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:49 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
MOZ079>081-091-071150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 548 AM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO POLK AND DALLAS COUNTIES... AT 546 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD WAS SHOWING AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHERN POLK AND DALLAS COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINS ALONG WITH POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTdORMS WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF URBANA...PUMPKIN CENTER...LOUISBURG AND POLK THROUGH 630 AM AND THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. LINDENBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 11:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Howell, Oregon, Shannon | 118 min |
| Aug 7, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas, Wright | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Wright | 47 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.