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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Springfield, MO

May 26, 1997Barry County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1997, 10:46 PM CDT for Barry County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1997, 11:20 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Barry County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 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, 10:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Purdy, MO
May 26, 11:04 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Mc Dowell, 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 21 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.

595 
WFUS1 KSGF 270351 RRA
TORSGF
MOC009-270420-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1046 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  BARRY COUNTY - SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1120 PM CDT
 
* SOME AREAS AFFECTED
  SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF MONETT AND NORTHERN BARRY COUNTY

* AT 1044 PM SPRINGFIELD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO NEAR PURDY.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

RUNNELS/SHUMWAY

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, 9:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Newton	48 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, 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.