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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Springfield, MO

April 3, 2001Douglas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2001, 3:36 PM CDT for Douglas County, Missouri. It was in force for 24 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 3, 2001, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Douglas County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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 3, 3:55 PM CDT	Hail 4.5	Vanzant, 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 3, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1171 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KSGF 032036
TORSGF
MOC067-032100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
336 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 333 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR MOUNTAIN
  GROVE...OR 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOUSTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 
  30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  DOUGLAS COUNTY.

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 HOMEQS 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.

SUTTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	25 min
Apr 3, 11:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	43 min
Apr 3, 12:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller, Morgan	40 min
Apr 3, 12:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Morgan	3 hr
Apr 3, 12:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	49 min
Apr 3, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	48 min
Apr 3, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	42 min
Apr 3, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps	45 min
Apr 3, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede, Webster	47 min
Apr 3, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Wright	62 min
Apr 3, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	34 min
Apr 3, 3:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Wright	31 min
Apr 3, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	35 min
Apr 3, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell	62 min
Apr 3, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon	67 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.