Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 8:39 PM CDT for Barry County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 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 24, 2000, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Barry County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 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, 8:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 19 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.
000 WFUS53 KSGF 250139 TORSGF MOC009-250230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 839 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BARRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 835 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR CASSVILLE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... CENTRAL BARRY...EASTERN BARRY AND NORTHEASTERN BARRY COUNTIES. 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 AVOAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3675 9400 3659 9391 3666 9359 3690 9363 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, 8:23 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, 8:43 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.