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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Springfield, MO

April 30, 1995Lawrence County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1995, 11:34 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 30, 1995, 11:34 PM CDT (04:34 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 1995, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Lawrence County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 23 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 340 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 010434
SVRSGF
MOC109-010530-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1134 PM CDT SUN APR 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
AT 1133 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD INDICATED A
POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY
JUST WEST OF PIERCE CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35
MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF PIERCE CITY AND MOUNT VERNON.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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 30, 6:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-310155-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
651 PM CDT SUN APR 30 1995

AT 640 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD CONTINUED
TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THESE
STORMS WERE LOCATED GENERALLY SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NEVADA TO WEST
PLAINS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WITHIN THIS AREA WAS INDICATED
NORTHWEST OF RACINE MISSOURI IN NORTHWESTERN NEWTON COUNTY OR ABOUT 10
MILES SOUTH OF JOPLIN.  ANOTHER BAND OF STRONG STORMS WAS INDICATED
FROM ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF PINEVILLE IN NORTHEAST MCDONALD COUNTY
INTO WESTERN BARRY COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF CASSVILLE.

THE STRONGER STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY
WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH AND PEA SIZED HAIL. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO
THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH.

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. I6N ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL...SOME
OF THE STORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

SUTTON

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.