Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 8:10 PM CDT for Greene County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2000, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Greene County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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 24, 8:11 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Springfield, MO | |
| May 24, 8:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Springfield, 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 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
779 WUUS53 KSGF 250110 SVRSGF MOC077-250200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 810 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 808 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WILLARD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SPRINGFIELD BY 815 PM CDT. STRAFFORD BY 820 PM CDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS...SUCH AS RADIO...TELEVISION... CABLE TELEVISION...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3736 9340 3721 9354 3707 9311 3731 9306 JLT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 31 min |
| May 24, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Texas | 32 min |
| May 24, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 26 min |
| May 24, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 49 min |
| May 24, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 31 min |
| May 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Wright | 41 min |
| May 24, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Texas | 50 min |
| May 24, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald, Newton | 67 min |
| May 24, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 63 min |
| May 24, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 52 min |
| May 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Oregon, Shannon | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry | 51 min |
| May 24, 8:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell | 32 min |
| May 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell | 4 hr |
| May 24, 8:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 9:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Shannon, Texas | 4 hr |
| May 24, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 31 min |
| May 24, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 57 min |
| May 24, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 51 min |
| May 24, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Ozark | 40 min |
| May 24, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 54 min |
| May 24, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 35 min |
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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.