Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 8:20 PM CDT for Greene County, Webster County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 8:20 PM CDT (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 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 01:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 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 280126 COR TORSGF MOC077-225-280145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 820 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...EASTERN GREENE COUNTY...WEBSTER COUNTY AT 820 PM...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO WAS DEVELOPING WITHIN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR TURNERS JUNCTION...5 MILES EAST OF SPRINGFIELD. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH INTO WEST CENTRAL WEBSTER COUNTY. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT SPRINGFIELD. RESIDENTS IN STRAFFORD AND NORTHVIEW SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. RUNNELS CORRECTION TO TIME IN TEXT
The 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, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Webster | 47 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 |
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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.