Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1997, 12:08 AM CDT for St. Clair County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 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
- May 26, 1997, 12:08 AM CDT (05:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County St. Clair County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 12:20 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Appleton City, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
380 WFUS1 KSGF 260508 RRA TORSGF MOC185-260600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1208 AM CDT MON MAY 26 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR ST. CLAIR COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * SOME AREAS AFFECTED NEAR JOHNSON CITY BY 1210 AM. OHIO BY 1220 AM. * AT SPRINGFIELD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF APPLETON CITY.. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH..
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Hickory, St. Clair | 50 min |
| May 25, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Benton | 36 min |
| May 25, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller, Pulaski | 51 min |
| May 25, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 32 min |
| May 26, 12:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 47 min |
| May 26, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Hickory | 51 min |
| May 26, 1:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, St. Clair | 3 hr |
| May 26, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 33 min |
| May 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Shannon | 50 min |
| May 26, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone | 66 min |
| May 26, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 65 min |
| May 26, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark, Taney | 70 min |
| May 26, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 78 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.