Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 10:16 PM CDT for Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2000, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Morgan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 26, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1270 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
154
WFUS53 KSGF 270316
TORSGF
MOC141-270400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1016 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* AT 1010 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
SEDALIA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
NORTHWESTERN MORGAN AND NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTIES.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...SYRACUSE.
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 3871 9309 3854 9309 3854 9307 3853 9277
3870 9284
JLTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 51 min |
| May 27, 2:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 51 min |
| May 27, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade | 46 min |
| May 27, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 42 min |
| May 27, 3:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 4 hr |
| May 27, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.