Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 9:35 PM CDT for Ozark County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min. 2 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, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ozark County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:36 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, 9:42 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Gainesville, MO | |
| May 24, 10:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bakersfield, 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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.
889 WFUS53 KSGF 250235 TORSGF MOC153-250315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 935 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OZARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 931 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF GAINESVILLE...OR 17 MILES NORTH OF BULL SHOALS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED BE NEAR... GAINESVILLE BY 950 PM CDT. BAKERSFIELD BY 1015 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 3672 9272 3655 9277 3648 9214 3671 9213 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, 8:39 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, 9:51 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.