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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO

April 3, 1999Taney County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1999, 2:13 PM CST for Taney County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 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: Apr 3, 1999, 2:13 PM CST (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 1999, 2:45 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Taney County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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
Apr 3, 2:25 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson, 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
Apr 3, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 1749 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 744 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 6.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 032019 RRA
TORSGF
MOC213-032045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
213 PM CST SAT APR 3 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TANEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 245 PM CST

* AT 212 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES
  SOUTH OF KIMBERLING CITY.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BRANSON BY 220 PM
  FORSYTH BY 230 PM


THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION.  MOVE QUICKLY TO A DESIGNATED
SHELTER...BASEMENT...OR INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR BUILDING.

TAGGART/LINDENBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 12:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	47 min
Apr 3, 5:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas, Wright	45 min
Apr 3, 6:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	47 min
Apr 3, 6:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone	49 min
Apr 3, 7:14 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Stone	3 hr
Apr 3, 7:36 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian	3 hr
Apr 3, 10:21 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Stone	4 hr
Apr 3, 1:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	49 min
Apr 3, 2:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Stone	34 min
Apr 3, 2:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	61 min
Apr 3, 2:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Christian	59 min
Apr 3, 2:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	35 min
Apr 3, 2:56 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone, Taney	4 hr
Apr 3, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Webster	49 min
Apr 3, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	62 min
Apr 3, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	62 min
Apr 3, 3:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	63 min
Apr 3, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Texas	65 min
Apr 3, 4:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark	65 min
Apr 3, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	47 min
Apr 3, 4:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	63 min
Apr 3, 5:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	64 min
Apr 3, 5:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Oregon	4 hr

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.