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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Springfield, MO

May 18, 1995Webster County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 9:05 AM CDT for Webster County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 9:05 AM CDT (14:05 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 9:30 AM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Webster County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 308 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: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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 181406
SVRSGF
MOC225-181430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
905 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN WEBSTER COUNTY
 
AT 905 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF
STRAFFORD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS
OF ELKLAND BY 920 AM...AND FORKNERS HILL BY 925 AM.
 
THIS STORM PRODUCED DIME TO QUARTER HAIL IN THE SPRINGFIELD AREA.
 
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.
 
GAEDE
 
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	59 min
May 17, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	52 min
May 17, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton	47 min
May 17, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade	37 min
May 17, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	12 min
May 18, 8:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	43 min
May 18, 9:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	43 min
May 18, 9:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	32 min
May 18, 10:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Texas	37 min
May 18, 11:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	37 min

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.