Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2002, 9:38 AM CDT for Douglas County, Ozark County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2002, 9:38 AM CDT (14:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2002, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Douglas County, MO, Ozark County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:38 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 30, 9:45 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Wasola, 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 30, 9:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1432 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
067 WFUS53 KSGF 301438 TORSGF MOC067-153-301530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 938 AM CDT TUE APR 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN OZARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SOUTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 1030 AM CDT * AT 933 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF AVA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... OZARK AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES. THE TOWNS OF SQUIRES...WASOLA...ROCKBRIDGE AND BRIXEY ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. 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 3697 9275 3681 9280 3670 9239 3689 9243 FOSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 8:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 8:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 9:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 9:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Polk | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone | 63 min |
| Apr 30, 9:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 9:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Webster | 53 min |
| Apr 30, 9:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 65 min |
| Apr 30, 9:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 10:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 10:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 10:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 63 min |
| Apr 30, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 21 min |
| Apr 30, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory | 41 min |
| Apr 30, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk | 35 min |
| Apr 30, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 38 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.