Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1995, 1:01 AM CDT for Laclede County, Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1995, 1:01 AM CDT (06:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Laclede County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 080602 SVRSGF MOC105-229-080700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 101 AM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...LACLEDE COUNTY...WRIGHT COUNTY AT 1259 AM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST AT 45 MPH. THE CITIES OF LEBANON...CONWAY...HARTVILLE AND MANSFIELD ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. PEOPLE IN THOSE COMMUNITIES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINWINDS AND HAIL. WINDS COULD GUSTS TO OVER 60 MPH AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THOSE COUNTIES. THE HEAVY RAIN FROM THESE STORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE SOME MINOR FLOODING SO MOTORIST SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND LOW FLOOD- PRONE AREAS. 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. DAVIS
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, May 7, 7:58 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-080500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 758 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 750 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM JOPLIN NORTHEAST TO STOCKTON. THE AREA WAS ABOUT 40 MILES WIDE. RADAR ESTIMATES AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN THIS EVENING IN THIS AREA WITH LOCALLY UP TO 2 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS OF CEDAR COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. EXPECT A BRIEF BREAK IN THE HEAVY RAINFALL FOR A WHILE THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS TO NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO WESTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AROUND 10PM. FURTHER EAST...FROM SPRINGFIELD TO BRANSON AND POINTS EAST ONLY SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS WERE REPORTED. THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE IN SPRINGFIELD AND BRANSON AND POINTS EAST AROUND MIDNIGHT AND THEREAFTER. NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...BUT LOW LYING AREAS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL HAVE STANDING WATER. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER CROSSINGS. RIDDLE
Special weather statement, May 7, 8:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-080625- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 820 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 313 IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 300 AM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...VERNON...BARTON...JASPER ...CEDAR...DADE...LAWRENCE...POLK...GREENE...CHRISTIAN...AND DALLAS. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF SPRINGFIELD...JOPLIN...NEVADA... STOCKTON...MT VERNON...BOLIVAR...AND OZARK. A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO WATCH AREA AFTER 10 PM. RIDDLE
Local storm report, May 7, 9:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
905 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1745 PM MINDEMINES MO COUNTY CD DIRECTOR RPTD
(545 PM) BARTON COUNTY BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN
NEAR TOWN. NARROW DAMAGE
PATH FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF
MINDEMINES TO MINDEMINES.
REPORTS OF POWER LINES AND
TREES DOWN AND ROOF WAS BLOWN
| OFF HOME. DESTROYED ONE
GARAGE. NO INJURIES REPORTED.Special weather statement, May 7, 9:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-080725- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 924 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 313 CONTINUES UNTIL 3 AM CDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI OVERNIGHT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM FOR THE AREA FROM JOPLIN TO OZARK TO BUFFALO AND POINTS NORTH. THIS INCLUDES SPRINGFIELD. ALSO...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THAT PART OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI FROM JOPLIN TO BOLIVAR AND BUFFALO AND POINTS NORTH. THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF VERNON...BARTON...JASPER...DADE...CEDAR...LAWRENCE...POLK...AND DALLAS. AT 925 PM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR PARSON KANSAS SOUTH TO TULSA. WINDS TO 70 MPH HAS BEEN REPORTED IN TULSA AT 908 PM. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL REACH THE WESTERN BORDER OF MISSOURI AROUND 1015 OR 1030 PM. RIDDLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence | 54 min |
| May 7, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Vernon | 53 min |
| May 7, 11:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Stone | 65 min |
| May 8, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk, Webster | 55 min |
| May 8, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 32 min |
| May 8, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Texas | 67 min |
| May 8, 3:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 6 hr |
| May 8, 3:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 6 hr |
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.