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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Springfield, MO

May 24, 2000Stone County, Taney County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 8:23 PM CDT for Stone County, Taney County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min. 3 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, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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
May 24, 8:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Lampe, MO
May 24, 9:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Forsyth, MO
May 24, 9:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Countywide, 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 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

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The text

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

504 
WFUS53 KSGF 250123
TORSGF
MOC209-213-250215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
823 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
  WESTERN TANEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 820 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR KIMBERLING
  CITY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED BE NEAR...
   KIMBERLING CITY BY 835 PM CDT.
   REEDS SPRING BY 840 PM CDT.
   INDIAN POINT BY 850 PM CDT.
   BRANSON BY 910 PM CDT.
   HOLLISTER...ROCKAWAY BEACH BY 915 PM CDT.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3676 9357 3659 9361 3648 9309 3673 9304

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, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	50 min
May 24, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone, Taney	63 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

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.