Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 1995, 5:06 PM CST for Barry County, Missouri. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 1995, 5:06 PM CST (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1995, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barry County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 262307 RRA SVRSGF MOC009-270000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 506 PM CST SUN FEB 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...BARRY COUNTY AT 500 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SOUTH OF MONETT...NEAR SELIGMAN MOVING NORTHEAST 40 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE SELIGMAN...EAGLE ROCK...AND SHELL KNOB. 3/4 TO ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. 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/LEE &
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, Feb 26, 2:39 PM CST, 2 hours 27 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-270000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 238 PM CST SUN FEB 26 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 235 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE JASPER/LAWRENCE COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT NORTHWEST LAWRENCE COUNTY AND THE MILLER AREA. SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LAWRENCE COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF NECESSARY. SUTTON
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 2:53 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-270000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 253 PM CST SUN FEB 26 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 250 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE DADE/LAWRENCE COUNTY LINE NORTH OF MILLER. THIS STORM CONTINUED TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN DADE...NORTHWESTERN GREENE AND SOUTHWERN POLK COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. PERSONS IN EVERTON...ASH GROVE EUDORA AND BRIGHTON MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF NECESSARY. SUTTON
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 2:55 PM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-270000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 253 PM CST SUN FEB 26 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 250 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE DADE/LAWRENCE COUNTY LINE NORTH OF MILLER. THIS STORM CONTINUED TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN DADE...NORTHWESTERN GREENE AND SOUTHWERN POLK COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. PERSONS IN EVERTON...ASH GROVE EUDORA AND BRIGHTON MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF NECESSARY. SUTTON
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 3:20 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-270000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 320 PM CST SUN FEB 26 1995 ...BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS-SOME STRONG-CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 317 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM HUMANSVILLE IN EXTREME NORTHWESTERN POLK COUNTY TO SPRINGFIELD AND BRANSON MISSOURI. THE STRONGER STORMS WITHIN THIS BAND WERE INDICATED ALONG THE POLK/GREENE COUNTY LINE NORTHEAST OF ASH GROVE...WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR BATTLEFIELD AND FROM GALENA TO BRANSON. THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD WEATHER CONDITIONS DETERIORATE. SUTTON
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 3:22 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-270000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 320 PM CST SUN FEB 26 1995 ...BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS-SOME STRONG-CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 317 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM HUMANSVILLE IN EXTREME NORTHWESTERN POLK COUNTY TO SPRINGFIELD AND BRANSON MISSOURI. THE STRONGER STORMS WITHIN THIS BAND WERE INDICATED ALONG THE POLK/GREENE COUNTY LINE NORTHEAST OF ASH GROVE...WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR BATTLEFIELD AND FROM GALENA TO BRANSON. THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD WEATHER CONDITIONS DETERIORATE. SUTTON
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 4:49 PM CST, 17 minutes before
MOZ101>103-262350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 449 PM CST SUN FEB 26 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 445 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR FROM SPRINGFIELD WAS SHOWING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST ACROSS THE MISSOURI BORDER IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN MCDONALD AND BARRY COUNTIES SHORTLY. PERSONS IN THE TOWNS OF SELIGMAN...EAGLE ROCK...AND SHELL KNOB CAN EXPECT THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN YOUR AREA THROUGH 530PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. 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.