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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Springfield, MO

April 19, 2000Bourbon County, Kansas; Vernon County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas; Vernon County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bourbon County, KS, Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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
Apr 19, 9:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Richards, 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
Apr 19, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 19, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 1428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1062 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 12.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KSGF 200216
TORSGF
KSC011-MOC217-200315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
915 PM CDT WED APR 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  VERNON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
  SOUTHEASTERN BOURBON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 912 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT SCOTT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED BE NEAR...
   FORT SCOTT BY 920 PM CDT.
   SCHELL CITY BY 1010 PM CDT.

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.

LINDENBERG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	57 min
Apr 19, 9:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Crawford	64 min
Apr 20, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	44 min
Apr 19, 10:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	St. Clair	57 min
Apr 19, 10:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Cedar, Vernon	65 min
Apr 19, 10:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Hickory, St. Clair	47 min
Apr 19, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	33 min
Apr 20, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller, Morgan	33 min
Apr 20, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	39 min
Apr 20, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	47 min
Apr 20, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	43 min
Apr 20, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	25 min
Apr 20, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar	52 min
Apr 20, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence	47 min
Apr 20, 1:31 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade	29 min
Apr 20, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	47 min
Apr 20, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene	43 min
Apr 20, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone	43 min
Apr 20, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory	48 min
Apr 20, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Polk, Webster	49 min
Apr 20, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Taney	57 min
Apr 20, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	17 min
Apr 20, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Wright	50 min
Apr 20, 2:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Pulaski	38 min
Apr 20, 3:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries, Miller	55 min
Apr 20, 3:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps	55 min
Apr 20, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark	45 min
Apr 20, 3:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Shannon, Texas	48 min
Apr 20, 4:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	42 min
Apr 20, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	34 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.