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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Springfield, MO

May 26, 1997Newton County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1997, 9:37 PM CDT for Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 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, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1997, 10:25 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Newton County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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, 10:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Stark 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 26, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 2590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 288 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 17.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 270238
TORSGF
MOC145-270325-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
937 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NEWTON COUNTY - SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1025 PM CDT
 
* SOME AREAS AFFECTED
  NEOSHO
  GRANDBY
  NEWTONIA
  STARK CITY

* AT 935 PM SPRINGFIELD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO NEAR THE TOWN OF NEOSHO.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING
  EAST AT 20 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGdHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

GAEDE/RUNNELS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene	60 min
May 26, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	63 min
May 26, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	61 min
May 26, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark	62 min
May 26, 8:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Oregon	4 hr
May 26, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	62 min
May 26, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Newton	52 min
May 26, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	65 min
May 26, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	65 min
May 26, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	64 min
May 26, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	63 min
May 26, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas	61 min
May 26, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	66 min
May 26, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	67 min
May 26, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	64 min
May 26, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	62 min
May 26, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence	64 min
May 26, 10:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, McDonald, Newton	6 hr
May 26, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark	63 min
May 26, 10:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon	6 hr
May 26, 10:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barry	34 min
May 26, 11:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Stone	48 min
May 27, 12:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Ozark	5 hr
May 27, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.