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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Springfield, MO

May 26, 1997Stone County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1997, 11:12 PM CDT for Stone County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 1997, 11:12 PM CDT (04:12 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1997, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Stone County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 35 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 270412 RRA
TORSGF
MOC209-270500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1112 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN STONE COUNTY - SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1200 AM CDT
 
* SOME AREAS AFFECTED
  WHEELERVILLE IN BARRY COUNTY
  CRANE AND ELSEY IN NORTHERN STONE COUNTY TOWARDS 1125 PM.

* AT 1109 PM TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO JUST
  EAST OF MCDOWELL IN NORTHERN BARRY COUNTY.  THIS STORM
  WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
 
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.

&
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, 10:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barry	34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.