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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Springfield, MO

June 3, 2001McDonald County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2001, 5:16 AM CDT for McDonald 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: Jun 3, 2001, 5:16 AM CDT (10:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2001, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County McDonald County, MO

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:16 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 3, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1361 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KSGF 031017
TORSGF
MOC119-031100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
516 AM CDT SUN JUN 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MCDONALD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 512 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF   
  TIFF CITY ...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   NOEL BY 525 AM CDT.
   LANAGAN BY 535 AM CDT.
   ANDERSON BY 535 AM CDT.
   PINEVILLE BY 540 AM CDT.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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.



LAT...LON 3671 9463 3653 9464 3649 9423 3@674 9423

DSA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 3:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone	47 min
Jun 3, 3:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald, Newton	66 min
Jun 3, 4:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	62 min
Jun 3, 5:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	59 min
Jun 3, 5:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	65 min
Jun 3, 5:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas	59 min
Jun 3, 5:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	58 min
Jun 3, 5:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	41 min
Jun 3, 5:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	38 min
Jun 3, 5:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	McDonald	3 hr
Jun 3, 5:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	McDonald	52 min
Jun 3, 6:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	58 min
Jun 3, 6:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	56 min
Jun 3, 6:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone	53 min
Jun 3, 6:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Taney	63 min
Jun 3, 6:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	27 min
Jun 3, 7:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	47 min
Jun 3, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	33 min
Jun 3, 8:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	34 min
Jun 3, 8:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	4 hr
Jun 3, 8:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Jasper, Lawrence	46 min
Jun 3, 9:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	51 min
Jun 3, 10:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair	43 min
Jun 3, 10:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	43 min
Jun 3, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Polk	40 min
Jun 3, 10:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Newton	6 hr
Jun 3, 10:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	47 min
Jun 3, 11:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dade	6 hr
Jun 3, 11:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Webster	44 min
Jun 3, 11:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	35 min
Jun 3, 11:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski	38 min
Jun 3, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	40 min
Jun 3, 12:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	McDonald	4 hr
Jun 3, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	32 min
Jun 3, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Lawrence	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.