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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Springfield, MO

April 14, 1996Laclede County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1996, 5:17 PM CDT for Laclede County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 14, 1996, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Laclede County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 14, 5:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Bennett Springs, MO

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -501 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 422 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 602 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 142218
TORSGF
MOC105-142300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
517 PM CDT SUN APR 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...LACLEDE COUNTY
 
...AT 515 PM...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO BETWENN BENNETT
SPRINGS AND LONG LANE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
AFFECT BENNETT SPRINGS...PROSPERINE AND ELDRIDGE THROUGH 6 PM.
 
BASEBALL SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 100 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN LACLEDE COUNTY 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.
 
JDG/MS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	49 min
Apr 14, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	41 min
Apr 14, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede	64 min
Apr 14, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Webster	49 min
Apr 14, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dallas	27 min
Apr 14, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Morgan	64 min
Apr 14, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Webster	64 min
Apr 14, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Taney	69 min
Apr 14, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Wright	62 min
Apr 14, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.