Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 8:18 AM CDT for Barton County, Vernon County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1995, 8:18 AM CDT (13:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1995, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barton County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:23 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 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 171319 SVRSGF MOC011-217-171400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 818 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...WESTERN BARTON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...VERNON COUNTY AT 815 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM INTENSFYING TO SEVERE LEVELS 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MINDENMINES MISSOURI. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL EFFECT THE TOWNS OF LIBERAL AND OSKALOOSA BY 830 AM AND INTO THE DEERFIELD AND NEVADA AREAS BY 845. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD PREPARE FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. 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 FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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, May 17, 8:07 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
MOZ082-096>098-105>108-161750- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 0745 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 100 PM CDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI TODAY... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CDT. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF BARRY...CHRISTIAN...DADE...DALLAS...DOUGLAS...GREENE...LACLEDE... LAWRENCE...OZARK...POLK...STONE...TANEY...MCDONALD...BARTON...JASPER... NEWTON...CEDAR...VERNON...WEBSTER AND WRIGHT. THE CITIES OF LEBANON...CASSVILLE...JOPLIN...NEVADA...STOCKTON... BRANSON AND SPRINGFIELD ARE IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI TODAY AND TONIGHT. ANOTHER ROUND OF POWERFUL THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER WESTERN MISSOURI...EASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF MISSOURI CAUSING HEAVY FLOOD PRODUCING RAINFALL. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS WINDS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 9:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 19 min |
| May 17, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 30 min |
| May 17, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 18 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.