Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1995, 9:44 PM CDT for Barry County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1995, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barry County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 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
- 801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 200246 SVRSGF MOC009-200315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 944 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...BARRY COUNTY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BARRY COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 1015 PM. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DOWN TREES AND DAMAGED SOME STRUCTURES ALONG HIGHWAY 90 IN SOUTHEAST MCDONALD COUNTY. AT 945 PM THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH INTO THE SELIGMAN AREA. IT IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE UP TO 70 MPH AS IT PASSES THROUGH EAGLE ROCK...CHAIN LAKES AND SHELL KNOB. 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. & RUNNELS
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 19, 4:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-192215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 413 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARDS SOUTHERN MISSOURI... AT 410PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR FROM SPRINGFIELD WAS SHOWING A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE TOWARDS THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF MISSOURI. ISOLATED STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THIS AREA WERE PRODUCING SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO MISSOURI BEFORE 5PM. THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS PUT THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF MISSOURI IN A SLIGHT RISK CATEGORY FOR SEVERE STORMS. WHILE THE AREA IS NOT CURRENTLY UNDER ANY WATCHES OR WARNINGS...THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI TONIGHT. ...REMEMBER... WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO rLOW WATER CROSSINGS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. LINDENBERG
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 8:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-200340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 839 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO MCDONALD COUNTY IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 835 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SOUTHWEST CITY AND NOEL IN MCDONALD COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF NOEL...PINEVILLE...AND POWELL THROUGH 900 PM AND THEN MOVE INTO PARTS OF SOUTHERN BARRY COUNTY NEAR SELIGMAN AND CASSVILLE SHORTLY AFTER 9 PM. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL. RIDDLE
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 9:13 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-200440- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 910 PM CDT WED APR 19 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 224 IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM FOR A SMALL PART OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... NEWTON...MCDONALD...BARRY...STONE...TANEY...CHRISTIAN...DOUGLAS... OZARK...AND HOWELL. THE CITIES OF PINEVILLE...NEOSHO...CASSVILLE... BRANSON...OZARK...AND WEST PLAINS ARE IN INCLUDED. THE WATCH IS VALID UNTIL 3 AM. STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RIDDLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Webster | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 22 min |
| Apr 20, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 15 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.