Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 1:13 AM CDT for Christian County, Greene County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1995, 1:13 AM CDT (06:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Christian County, MO, Greene County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 240614 SVRSGF MOC043-077-240700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 113 AM CDT WED MAY 24 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 ...CHRISTIAN COUNTY...GREENE COUNTY AT 110 AM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR FROM ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOUNT VERNON TO AURORA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF ASH GROVE...BILLINGS...AND REPUBLIBY 125 AM AND SPRINGFIELD AND NIXA BY 135 AM. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 65 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. 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 FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. GAEDE
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
Local storm report, May 23, 7:56 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
755 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0642 PM 3S GOLLDEN CITY MO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
JASPER/BARTON COUNTY REPORTED BY SKYWARN
LINESpecial weather statement, May 23, 8:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-240230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 825 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING OUT OF EXTREME NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA INTO NEWTON AND JASPER COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 823 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MIAMI OKLAHOMA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF JOPLIN BY 845 PM...AND CARTHAGE BY 855 PM. STRONG WIND...HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STORM. THIS STORM HAS INCREASED IN INTENSITY SINCE 815 PM...SO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADAR FOR FURTHER UPDATES. LEE
Special weather statement, May 23, 8:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-240250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 848 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS LACLEDE DALLAS AND WEBSTER COUNTIES... A LINE OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM BENNETT SPRINGS STATE PART TO ELKLAND. THIS LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 35 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING AN AREA FROM CONWAY TO LEBANON BY 915 PM. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL PRODUCE PEA SIZE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. LEE
Special weather statement, May 23, 9:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
MOZ088-093-240310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 905 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE JOPLIN AREA... AT 905 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JOPLIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL (RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. GAEDE
Local storm report, May 23, 10:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1042 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0640 PM 3W LAMAR MO LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN
WRN BARTON COUNTY ON HWY 160
SO REPORTSpecial weather statement, May 23, 11:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
MOZ088-093-240545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1142 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 1995 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD NEWTON AND JASPER COUNTIES... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER DELAWARE...MAYES AND OTTAWA COUNTY OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA CONTINUES TO MOVE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS AREA WILL BE IN THE NEOSHO TO JOPLIN AREA BY 1215 AM AND CARTHAGE BY 1225 AM. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCIN|G DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND STRIKES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. GORDON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 51 min |
| May 24, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 43 min |
| May 24, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence | 69 min |
| May 24, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 54 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.