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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Springfield, MO

November 10, 1995Ozark County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 1995, 7:33 PM CST for Ozark County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 1995, 7:33 PM CST (01:33 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 1995, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Ozark County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 463 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 89 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 110134
TORSGF
MOC153-110215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
733 PM CST FRI NOV 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...OZARK COUNTY
 
AT 731 PM CST...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7
MILES SOUTHWEST OF ISABELLA MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF
SUNDOWN...ISABELLA...GAINESVILLE...AND ROMANCE.  IF YOU ARE IN WESTERN
OZARK COUNTY...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
GORDON/GAEDE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 6:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Phelps	48 min
Nov 10, 6:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Texas	44 min
Nov 10, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	56 min
Nov 10, 6:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Wright	33 min
Nov 10, 6:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Texas	50 min
Nov 10, 7:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	30 min
Nov 10, 7:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark	44 min
Nov 10, 7:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Shannon	53 min
Nov 10, 8:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Shannon	60 min
Nov 10, 8:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Ozark	13 min
Nov 10, 8:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell	39 min
Nov 10, 8:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	48 min
Nov 10, 9:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	25 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.