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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Springfield, MO

April 15, 1998Newton County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1998, 12:38 AM CDT for Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 62 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: Apr 15, 1998, 12:38 AM CDT (05:38 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 1998, 1:40 AM CDT
In force: 62 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 05:41 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
Apr 14, 11:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 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: 184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 150538 RRA
TORSGF
MOC145-150640-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1238 AM CDT WED APR 15 1998

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHERN NEWTON COUNTY - SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 140 AM CDT
 
* SOME AREAS AFFECTED
  AREAS IN NORTHWEST NEWTON COUNTY BY 1250 AM
  NEAR REDINGS MILL AND SAGINAW BY 1 AM

* AT 1235 AM SPRINGFIELD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO OVER GALENA IN SOUTHEAST CHEROKEE CvOUNTY OR 12
  MILES WEST OF JOPLIN.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 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.

GORDON/TAGGART

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 12:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Jasper	65 min
Apr 15, 12:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	52 min
Apr 15, 1:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade	65 min
Apr 15, 1:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Lawrence	65 min
Apr 15, 1:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene	66 min
Apr 15, 1:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Vernon	62 min
Apr 15, 1:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Polk	65 min
Apr 15, 2:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair	63 min
Apr 15, 3:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Hickory	62 min
Apr 15, 3:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas	66 min
Apr 15, 3:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Laclede	63 min
Apr 15, 4:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Pulaski	62 min
Apr 15, 4:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Hickory, Polk, St. Clair	63 min
Apr 15, 5:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	34 min
Apr 15, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	50 min
Apr 15, 6:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	63 min
Apr 15, 6:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	51 min
Apr 15, 12:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	51 min
Apr 15, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Morgan	66 min
Apr 15, 1:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Camden, Morgan	65 min
Apr 15, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	65 min
Apr 15, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	51 min
Apr 15, 3:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Maries	19 min
Apr 15, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	46 min
Apr 15, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	49 min
Apr 15, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Shannon	63 min
Apr 15, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski	64 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.