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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Springfield, MO

May 23, 2004Christian County, Stone County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2004, 6:54 PM CDT for Christian County, Stone County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 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 23, 2004, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Christian County, MO, Stone County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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 23, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 28 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: 1106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -297 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 780 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 359 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

826 
WFUS53 KSGF 232354
TORSGF
MOC043-209-240045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
654 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.
  WESTERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT.

* AT 652 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH 
  STRONG ROTATION AND TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A LARGE      
  ROTATING WALL CLOUD WITH A FUNNEL CLOUD JUST SOUTHEAST OF MOUNT    
  VERNON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
  NEAR BILLINGS BY 720 PM CDT.
  NEAR CRANE BY 735 PM CDT.
  NEAR CLEVER BY 740 PM CDT.

THE TOWN OF HURLEY IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY 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 3710 9361 3687 9362 3675 9339 3698 9323

$$

IZZI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	39 min
May 23, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory	49 min
May 23, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	44 min
May 23, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	46 min
May 23, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede	23 min
May 23, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	36 min
May 23, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Jasper, Lawrence	44 min
May 23, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede, Pulaski	43 min
May 23, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	48 min
May 23, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	47 min
May 23, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski	36 min
May 23, 6:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Lawrence	5 hr
May 23, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	27 min
May 23, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Lawrence	44 min
May 23, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Laclede, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	44 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.