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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 12:16 AM CDT for Pulaski County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 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 27, 2004, 12:16 AM CDT (05:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pulaski County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:19 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.
126
WFUS53 KSGF 270516
TORSGF
MOC169-270615-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1216 AM CDT THU MAY 27 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI.
* UNTIL 115 AM CDT.
* AT 1211 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEBANON...AND MOVING EAST AT
40 MPH.
* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL BE...
NEAR FORT LEONARD WOOD BY 1245 AM CDT.
THE TOWN OF LAQUEY IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE GOLF
BALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WELL AWAY FROM
THE STORM CENTER.
LAT...LON 3775 9203 3781 9240 3770 9242 3762 9224
3761 9203
$$
IZZIThe 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 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, 12:55 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.