Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 7:58 PM CDT for Greene County, Webster County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, MO, Webster County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 280101 SVRSGF MOC077-225-280145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 758 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...EASTERN GREENE COUNTY...WEBSTER COUNTY THE WARNING FOR GREENE COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED. AT 758 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED TO MOVE THROUGH SPRINGFIELD. AT 752 PM....NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY AN OFF DUTY NWS METEOROLOGIST ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF SPRINGFIELD. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH THROUGH SPRINGFIELD AND STRAFFORD...AND THEN INTO THE MARSHFIELD AREA BY 830 PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCEb TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. &
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, 2:34 PM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-272235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 231 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 227 PM...SPRINGFIELD RADAR SHOWED THREE CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE ARKANSAS AND MISSOURI BORDER AND WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH JUST SOUTH OF CASSVILLE AND TO THE KIMBERLING CITY AND GALENA AREAS BY 330 PM. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED UPROOTING TREES. ANOTHER AREA OF STORMS FROM HARTVILLE TO GAINESVILLE WILL EXTEND FROM HOUSTON TO WILLOW SPRINGS BY 330 PM. A THIRD STRONG CLUSTER OF STORMS NEAR GREENFIELD IN DADE COUNTY WILL MOVE INTO POLK COUNTY BY 330 PM. EACH OF THESE STORMS IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN CAUSING LOCALIZED LOW LAND AND ROADWAY FLOODING...ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. PERSONS OUTDOORS THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND TAKE SHELTER AT SIGNS OF AN APPROACHING STORM. RIDDLE
Special weather statement, May 27, 3:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-272215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 312 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS TO 50 MPH PASSING THROUGH SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND THE TRI LAKES AREA... ...ALL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXPIRE AT 315 PM... AT 310...SPRINGFIELD RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFIELD SOUTH TO JUST WEST OF OZARK THEN TO 15 MILES WEST OF BRANSON. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS AS IT AFFECTS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF SPRINGFIELD...NIXA...OZARK...AND BRANSON BY 4 PM. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN THE6 PATH OF THESE STORMS AND BOATERS IN THE TABLE ROCK LAKE AND LAKE TANEYCOMO AREA SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AT ONCE FROM THESE STORMS. RIDDLE
Special weather statement, May 27, 4:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-280110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 409 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 483 FOR A PART OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 11 PM... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... VERNON...BARTON...JASPER...NEWTON...CEDAR...DADE...AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF JOPLIN...STOCKTON...MT VERNON...NEVADA ...AND NEOSHO. RIDDLE
Local storm report, May 27, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
616 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995
TIME (CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0607 PM 5NE JOPLIN MO 1.75 INCH HAIL, 60 MPH WIND.
05/27/95 JASPER GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60
MPH WIND AT 15 MILE MARKER OF
I-44.
STORM DECREASED RAPIDLY AFTER HAIL FELL.
RUNNELSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 53 min |
| May 27, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 27 min |
| May 27, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 48 min |
| May 27, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Greene, Webster | 25 min |
| May 27, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 43 min |
| May 27, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Polk | 53 min |
| May 27, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Webster | 36 min |
| May 27, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Lawrence, Newton | 39 min |
| May 27, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 30 min |
| May 27, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 28 min |
| May 27, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Webster | 47 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.