Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1995, 2:11 PM CDT for Texas County, Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1995, 2:11 PM CDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1995, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Texas County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 2558 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 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 071912 RRA SVRSGF MOC215-229-072000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 211 PM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...WESTERN TEXAS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...EASTERN WRIGHT COUNTY AT 210 PM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE WRIGHT-TEXAS COUNTY LINE ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF BENDAVIS...OR 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF DAWSON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT BENDAVIS AND DAWSON BY 230 PM...AND CABOOL AND DUNN BY 245 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY F0ROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. GORDON/GAEDE
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, 1:45 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-081200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 145 PM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS ACROSS THE OZARKS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR AHEAD OF THE WEAK FRONT AS IT PUSHES TO THE EAST NORTHEAST. THE AIR AROUND AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE. SURFACE DEW POINTS ARE IN THE LOW TO MID 70S WHICH WILL AID IN THE THUNDERSTORM FORMATION AND LONGEVITY. IN ADDITION TO THE WEAK FRONT AND HIGH DEWPOINTS THE THIRD TRIGGER IS A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL TROUGHS MOVING THROUGH THE UPPER LEVEL NORTHWEST FLOW. THE COMBINATION OF THESE THREE INGREDIENTD ALONG WITH STRONG SURFACE HEATING WILL ASSIST IN THE THUNDERSTORM PROCESS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. AREAS THAT RECEIVE THUNDESTORMS COULD RECEIVE 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THESE SCATTERED STORMS. THE BEST AREAS FOR THE SEVERE STORMS WILL BE EAST OF BUFFALO...TO HARTVILLE TO WEST PLAINS LINE. THE BEST TIME FRAME FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE BETWEEN 4 AND 9 PM IN THIS AREA. MOVEMENT WILL LIKELY BE TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 10-15 MPH. SPOTTER GROUPS ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. GORDON
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 1:57 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-081200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 145 PM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS ACROSS THE OZARKS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR AHEAD OF THE WEAK FRONT AS IT PUSHES TO THE EAST NORTHEAST. THE AIR AROUND AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE. SURFACE DEW POINTS ARE IN THE LOW TO MID 70S WHICH WILL AID IN THE THUNDERSTORM FORMATION AND LONGEVITY. IN ADDITION TO THE WEAK FRONT AND HIGH DEWPOINTS THE THIRD TRIGGER IS A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL TROUGHS MOVING THROUGH THE UPPER LEVEL NORTHWEST FLOW. THE COMBINATION OF THESE THREE INGREDIENTD ALONG WITH STRONG SURFACE HEATING WILL ASSIST IN THE THUNDERSTORM PROCESS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. AREAS THAT RECEIVE THUNDESTORMS COULD RECEIVE 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN THESE SCATTERED STORMS. THE BEST AREAS FOR THE SEVERE STORMS WILL BE EAST OF BUFFALO...TO HARTVILLE TO WEST PLAINS LINE. THE BEST TIME FRAME FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE BETWEEN 4 AND 9 PM IN THIS AREA. MOVEMENT WILL LIKELY BE TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 10-15 MPH. SPOTTER GROUPS ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. GORDON
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, 6:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 11:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Howell, Oregon, Shannon | 118 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.