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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Springfield, MO

May 18, 1995Dallas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 9:17 AM CDT for Dallas County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 18, 1995, 9:17 AM CDT (14:17 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 1995, 9:49 AM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Dallas County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:38 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 271 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1995-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1995-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 181423 COR
SVRSGF
MOC059-105-181500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTION TO STORM LOCATION...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
917 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

   ...SOUTHEASTERN DALLAS COUNTY...LACLEDE COUNTY

AT 917 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR ABOUT 9
MILES NORTHWEST OF MARSHFIELD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
THE AFFECT THE TOWNS OF CONWAY AND PHILLIPSBURG BY 930 AM AND LEBANON BY
945 AM.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO QUARTER SIZE...WIND GUSTS TO
70 MPH...AND MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES.

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 F LOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

GAEDE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarton, Vernon59 min
May 17, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFJasper52 min
May 17, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFBarton47 min
May 17, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCedar, Dade37 min
May 17, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFPolk12 min
May 18, 8:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFGreene43 min
May 18, 9:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFWebster25 min
May 18, 9:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLaclede43 min
May 18, 10:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFHowell, Texas37 min
May 18, 11:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFShannon37 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.