Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Dec 18, 2002, 2:41 AM CST for Hickory County, Polk County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 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
- Dec 18, 2002, 2:41 AM CST (08:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2002, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hickory County, MO, Polk County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 2:57 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Weaubleau, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 10:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 432 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
394 WFUS53 KSGF 180841 TORSGF MOC085-167-180930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 241 AM CST WED DEC 18 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN POLK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SOUTHERN HICKORY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 330 AM CST * AT 235 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF STOCKTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HUMANSVILLE BY 245 AM CST. WEAUBLEAU BY 250 AM CST. WHEATLAND BY 300 AM CST. HERMITAGE BY 305 AM CST. THE TOWNS OF DUNNEGAN...FLEMINGTON...ELKTON...PITTSBURG AND NEMO ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM HAS A LONG HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. NUMEROUS STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED ALONG THE PATH OF THIS STORM WITH SEVERAL INJURIES REPORTED AS WELL. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY DO NOT WAIT TO HEAR OR SEE THE TORNADO. 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 3792 9358 3759 9364 3780 9320 3803 9306 $$ BOOKBINDER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 8:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Newton | 32 min |
| Dec 17, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 28 min |
| Dec 17, 9:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 46 min |
| Dec 17, 9:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 46 min |
| Dec 17, 9:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 46 min |
| Dec 17, 9:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Greene | 61 min |
| Dec 17, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 43 min |
| Dec 17, 10:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | McDonald | 19 min |
| Dec 17, 10:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Newton | 32 min |
| Dec 17, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 31 min |
| Dec 17, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller | 65 min |
| Dec 17, 10:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence | 27 min |
| Dec 17, 10:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 46 min |
| Dec 17, 10:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 14 min |
| Dec 17, 10:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 21 min |
| Dec 17, 11:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 26 min |
| Dec 17, 11:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 24 min |
| Dec 17, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 52 min |
| Dec 17, 11:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Greene | 44 min |
| Dec 17, 11:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Greene | 40 min |
| Dec 17, 11:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 58 min |
| Dec 17, 11:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Polk | 27 min |
| Dec 17, 11:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Dallas | 52 min |
| Dec 18, 12:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, St. Clair | 60 min |
| Dec 18, 12:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 34 min |
| Dec 18, 12:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Laclede | 26 min |
| Dec 18, 1:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 48 min |
| Dec 18, 1:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Jasper | 42 min |
| Dec 18, 1:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barton | 40 min |
| Dec 18, 2:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Dade | 39 min |
| Dec 18, 2:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cedar | 32 min |
| Dec 18, 2:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 25 min |
| Dec 18, 3:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Webster | 24 min |
| Dec 18, 3:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Webster | 47 min |
| Dec 18, 3:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Camden | 23 min |
| Dec 18, 3:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Wright | 45 min |
| Dec 18, 3:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Morgan | 49 min |
| Dec 18, 4:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 30 min |
| Dec 18, 4:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 50 min |
| Dec 18, 5:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 44 min |
| Dec 18, 5:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Benton | 36 min |
| Dec 18, 6:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone, Taney | 46 min |
| Dec 18, 6:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Taney | 30 min |
| Dec 18, 7:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas, Webster, Wright | 35 min |
| Dec 18, 9:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster, Wright | 41 min |
| Dec 18, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 36 min |
| Dec 18, 2:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Ozark | 24 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.