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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Springfield, MO

May 1, 2002Taney County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2002, 8:19 PM CDT for Taney County, Missouri. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 1, 2002, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Taney County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 1, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 1175 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KSGF 020119
TORSGF
MOC213-020145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
818 PM CDT WED MAY 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN TANEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 817 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  TANEYVILLE...OR 14 MILES EAST OF BRANSON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

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

THE TOWNS OF KISSEE MILLS AND RUETER ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS
TORNADIC STORM.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

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 3677 9314 3659 9314 3659 9277 3681 9277

SUTTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	48 min
May 1, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Taney	64 min
May 1, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas, Wright	46 min
May 1, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark	49 min
May 1, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	45 min
May 1, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	40 min
May 1, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	25 min
May 1, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	65 min
May 2, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	45 min
May 2, 4:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	26 min
May 2, 4:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	14 min
May 2, 4:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Texas	30 min
May 2, 6:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	20 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.