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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Springfield, MO

February 25, 2000Hickory County, Polk County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 2000, 1:56 PM CST for Hickory County, Polk County, Missouri. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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: Feb 25, 2000, 1:56 PM CST (19:56 UTC)
Expired: Feb 25, 2000, 2:30 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Hickory County, MO, Polk County, MO

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 25, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado F0	Polk, 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
Feb 25, 1:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 251959
TORSGF
MOC085-167-252030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
156 PM CST FRI FEB 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HICKORY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI.
  NORTHEASTERN POLK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.

* UNTIL 230 PM CST.

* AT 151 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF   
BOLIVAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH TOWARDS THE CITY OF POLK.

GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR SUCH AS
A BATHROOM OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.

LAT...LON 3775 9352 3758 9335 3768 9326 3780 9322
          3786 9322 3789 9321 3800 9322 3797 9338
          3780 9350

RUNNELS

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, 2:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Camden, Morgan	36 min
Feb 25, 2:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	53 min
Feb 25, 3:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede	47 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.