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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2004, 10:37 PM CDT for Hickory County, Missouri. It was in force for 68 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 26, 2004, 10:37 PM CDT (03:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2004, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hickory County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1669 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 828 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 12.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
220 WFUS53 KSGF 270337 TORSGF MOC085-270445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1036 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HICKORY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI. * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT. * AT 1033 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OSCEOLA...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTH OF STOCKTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE... NEAR WEAUBLEAU BY 1100 PM CDT. NEAR WHEATLAND BY 1110 PM CDT. NEAR HERMITAGE BY 1120 PM CDT. THE TOWNS OF QUINCY...ELKTON...PITTSBURG...NEMO AND PRESTON ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 3801 9350 3787 9355 3781 9326 3801 9309 $$ IZZI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries, Phelps | 29 min |
| May 26, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Vernon | 63 min |
| May 26, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 61 min |
| May 26, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 35 min |
| May 26, 11:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Dallas | 57 min |
| May 26, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 52 min |
| May 26, 11:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Laclede | 76 min |
| May 27, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 32 min |
| May 27, 12:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 59 min |
| May 27, 12:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 65 min |
| May 27, 1:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Dade | 59 min |
| May 27, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar | 58 min |
| May 27, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 54 min |
| May 27, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 40 min |
| May 27, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 64 min |
| May 27, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 44 min |
| May 27, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 59 min |
| May 27, 3:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 63 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.