Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1999, 4:49 PM CDT for Webster County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 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
- Jun 1, 1999, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1999, 5:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Webster County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
252 WFUS1 KSGF 012150 RRA TORSGF MOC059-167-225-012240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 449 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DALLAS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI SOUTHEASTERN POLK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI NORTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI * UNTIL 540 PM CDT * AT 448 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOLIVAR NEAR BRIGHTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PLEASANT HOPE BY 5 PM OLIVE AND MARCH BY 515 PM ELKLAND AND CHARITY BY 520 PM A TORNADO HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY RADAR. FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY...MOVE TO A DESIGNATED SHELTER OR INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. GAEDE/RUNNELS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 33 min |
| Jun 1, 3:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Dade, Jasper | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Polk | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 36 min |
| Jun 1, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Miller | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Miller, Pulaski | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk | 51 min |
| Jun 1, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Maries | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Phelps, Pulaski | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 35 min |
| Jun 1, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 33 min |
| Jun 1, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Phelps | 20 min |
| Jun 1, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 34 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.