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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Springfield, MO

May 27, 1995Jasper County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 4:48 AM CDT for Jasper County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1995, 4:48 AM CDT (09:48 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Jasper County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:47 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 59 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1995-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 71 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1995-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 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
71 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
737 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 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 270950
SVRSGF
MOC097-271045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
448 AM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...JASPER COUNTY
 
AT 447 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD INDICATED A POSSIBLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER JOPLIN MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT NEAR 25 MPH.
 
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.
 
SUTTON

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 27, 4:48 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-271150-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
446 AM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE JOPLIN AREA...

AT 443 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHWESTERN JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST
MISSOURI. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE JOPLIN AREA THROUGH 515 AM AND
LIKELY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAIL
AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST
AT NEAR 25 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

SUTTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 2:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarry23 min
May 27, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFPolk32 min
May 27, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFStone30 min
May 27, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFStone34 min
May 27, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTaney29 min
May 27, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMcDonald, Newton32 min
May 27, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian38 min
May 27, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFChristian, Taney36 min
May 27, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFDouglas50 min
May 27, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTexas, Wright50 min
May 27, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFNewton38 min
May 27, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLawrence46 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.