Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2004, 11:29 PM CDT for Laclede County, Missouri. It was in force for 76 min. 2 reports 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
- May 26, 2004, 11:29 PM CDT (04:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 76 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Laclede County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:04 AM CDT | HAIL 0.5 | 1 E Eldridge, MO | HALF INCH HAIL REPORTED AT HIGHWAY 5 AND VV |
| May 27, 12:04 AM CDT | HAIL 0.5 | 1 E Eldridge, MO | HALF INCH HAIL REPORTED AT HIGHWAY 5 AND VV |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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.
626 WFUS53 KSGF 270429 TORSGF MOC105-270545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1128 PM CDT WED MAY 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LACLEDE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT. * AT 1125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR URBANA...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOLIVAR...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN LACLEDE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF ELDRIDGE...SLEEPER AND STOUTLAND. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. 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 3779 9242 3789 9286 3774 9286 3765 9242 $$ 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, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Hickory | 68 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 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.