Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT for Barton County, Jasper County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 447 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 232331 SVRSGF MOC011-097-240000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 630 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...EASTERN BARTON COUNTY...NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR AT 630 PM CDT 13 MILES NORTH OF JOPLIN MOVING EAST NORTHEAST 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF GOLDEN CITY...AND MAPLE GROVE BY 650 PM. VERY LARGE DAMAGING HAIL WILL OCCUR WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEO$PLE 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. LEE
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 23, 6:25 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-240025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 624 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 650 PM CDT FOR WESTERN BARTON AND NORTHWEST JASPER COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 622 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF CARL JUNCTION MOVING EAST NORTHEAST 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF CARYTOWN...AND JASPER BY 635 PM...AND BOSTON BY 645 PM. VERY LARGE HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER WILL OCCUR WITH THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. LEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 43 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.