Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT for Stone County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 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
- May 12, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Stone County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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 12, 4:01 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Crane, 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 2122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 409 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KSGF 122101 TORSGF MOC209-122130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 400 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 356 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR CRANE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL MOVE TO NEAR HURLEY BY 410 PM. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IN IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. LAT...LON 3694 9366 3676 9361 3681 9336 3698 9338 TERRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 36 min |
| May 12, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian | 32 min |
| May 12, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Webster | 45 min |
| May 12, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 51 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.