Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2000, 2:52 PM CST for Greene County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 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
- Feb 25, 2000, 2:52 PM CST (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2000, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, MO
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 252054 SVRSGF MOC077-252145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 252 PM CST FRI FEB 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. * UNTIL 345 PM CST. * AT 250 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR REPUBLIC...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BATTLEFIELD...BROOKLINE BY 255 PM CST. SPRINGFIELD...WILLARD BY 300 PM CST. FAIR GROVE BY 315 PM CST. RUNNELS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 25, 2:40 PM CST, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 2:40 PM CST, 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
230 AM CST FRI FEB 25 2000
FORECAST CONCERNS: NEED FOR A WIND ADVISORY TODAY...RAIN CHANCES
SATURDAY AND TEMPERATURES
CONVECTION INDICATED AT PRESS TIME FROM EASTERN KANSAS TO WESTERN
TEXAS...WITH WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS OVER FAR WESTERN
MISSOURI. ANOTHER BALMY NIGHT WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 60S AND
DEWPOINTS IN THE MIDDLE 50S.
EXPECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA TO
GRADUALLY DECREASE IN INTENSITY AND LIFT NORTHEAST AS THEY MOVE
AWAY FROM DYNAMICS AND INITIAL(WEAKER) JET SEGMENT MOVES NORTHEAST.
WHILE THE SHORT RANGE MODELS BRING THE SALT LAKE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM
INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS BY LATE AFTERNOON...THERE ARE TIMING
DIFFERENCES WITH RESPECT TO THE LOW LEVEL FEATURES. NGM AND ETA WERE
THE ONLY MODELS TO PICK UP ON THE STRONG 300 MB DIVERGENCE
CONTRIBUTING TO THE CURRENT KANSAS STORMS...BUT PREFER THE ETA.
EXPECT RAPID DEVELOPMENT TO OCCUR IN EASTERN KANSAS AROUND NOON AS
THE SECOND(STRONGER) JET SEGMENT MOVES INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS.
SEVERE STORMS WILL BE A GOOD BET...WITH STRONG LOW LEVEL INFLOW AND
DEWPOINTS PUSHING 60 DEGREES. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE
THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS...BUT CANNOT RULE OUT
ISOLATED TORNADOS EVEN THOUGH THE LOW LEVEL WINDS BECOME MORE
UNIDIRECTIONAL.
THOUGHT ABOUT A WIND ADVISORY FOR WESTERN SECTIONS TODAY...WITH 40
TO 45 KNOTS INDICATED AT 925 MB. CONVECTIVE DEBRIS MAY PREVENT WIND
FROM REACHING ITS POTENTIAL SO WILL LEAVE OUT THE HEADLINE FOR NOW.
WHILE RAIN SHOULD END FROM WEST TO EAST TONIGHT...MAIN UPPER
DYNAMICS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE OZARKS UNTIL SATURDAY.
WITH COLD POOL AND STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES FORECAST...THOUGHT
ABOUT ADDING A LOW POP. HAVE DECIDED TO OMIT IT AT THIS TIME SINCE
LOW LEVEL MOIST TONGUE WILL HAVE SHIFTED TO THE EAST BY THEN. SLOW
EAST MOVEMENT OF AREA OF STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND WILL
MENTION THAT AS WELL.
BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS AND WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION HOLDING OFF UNTIL
MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO RISE ABOVE GUIDANCE
VALUES IN MOST AREAS TODAY. WILL GO ABOVE GUIDANCE FOR LOWS TONIGHT
AS FRONT DOES NOT MOVE THROUGH UNTIL LATE AND AIRMASS IS NOT ALL
THAT COLD. COULD SEE NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES SUNDAY MORNING FOR
THE FIRST TIME IN AWHILE.
THANKS TO EAX FOR COORDINATION THIS MORNING.
PRELIMINARY L OCAL FORECAST GUIDANCE
SGF TB 073 046 060 034 062 088822
JLN TB 073 045 062 035 065 088512
UNO TB 074 050 062 036 062 085822
VIH TB 074 048 060 033 060 085822
.SGF...NONE.
SUTTONIn the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 25, 1:00 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-260300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 100 PM CST FRI FEB 25 2000 ...SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A STRONG COLD FRONT WAS PUSHING INTO CENTRAL KANSAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AHEAD OF THIS FRONT WERE HELPING TO BRING HIGHER DEW POINTS TO THE AREA AND DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. ADDITIONALLY...CLEARING WAS TAKING PLACE ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND FURTHER DESTABILIZATION SHOULD OCCUR THERE THIS AFTERNOON WITH INCREASED SURFACE HEATING. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT AS IT PUSHES INTO EASTERN KANSAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS SHOULD DEVELOP INTO A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND WILL PUSH INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI BY EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. SPOTTERS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. .OUTLOOK FOR SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD. LINDENBERG
Special weather statement, Feb 25, 1:04 PM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes before
MOZ055>058-067>071-078>083-089>092-094>098-102>106-252200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 104 PM CST FRI FEB 25 2000 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 7 PM... THE TORNADO WATCH IS VALID FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...IN MISSOURI... BARRY... BENTON... CAMDEN... CEDAR... CHRISTIAN... DADE... DALLAS... DENT... DOUGLAS... GREENE... HICKORY... HOWELL... LACLEDE... LAWRENCE... MARIES... MILLER... MORGAN... OREGON... OZARK... PHELPS... POLK... PULASKI... SHANNON... ST. CLAIR... STONE... TANEY... TEXAS... WEBSTER... WRIGHT... STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND HAIL...ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. TAKE TIME NOW TO THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WOULD DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF IF A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. REMEMBER...ELECTRICAL POWER AND OTHER SERVICES MAY BE INTERRUPTED DURING SEVERE STORMS. LINDENBERG
Local storm report, Feb 25, 2:35 PM CST, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
235 PM CST FRI FEB 25 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0210 PM 5 N POLK MO 60 MPH TSTM GUST
02/25/00 POLK TREE LIMBS DOWN.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0220 PM 4 SE PRESTON MO TORNADO
02/25/00 HICKORY BUS BARN DESTORYED.
SKYLINE SCHOOL
DAMANGED. TREES ON
x HOUSES AND POWERLINES.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 9:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 41 min |
| Feb 25, 12:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald, Newton | 53 min |
| Feb 25, 12:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 39 min |
| Feb 25, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory, Polk | 45 min |
| Feb 25, 1:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Hickory, Polk | 34 min |
| Feb 25, 2:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Camden, Morgan | 36 min |
| Feb 25, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Dallas, Laclede | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.