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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Springfield, MO

June 12, 2004Jasper County, Missouri; Cherokee County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 4:36 PM CDT for Jasper County, Missouri; Cherokee County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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: Jun 12, 2004, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Jasper County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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
Jun 12, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 2508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.2

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The text

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

967 
WFUS53 KSGF 122136
TORSGF
KSC021-MOC097-122230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
434 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.
  EASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT.

* AT 431 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A ROTATING
  WALL CLOUD NEAR CARL JUNCTION...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  JOPLIN. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS ROTATION STRENGTHNING RAPIDLY WITH
  THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...WHICH IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
  NEAR CARL JUNCTION BY 440 PM CDT.
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ORONOGO BY 450 PM CDT.
  NEAR PURCELL BY 500 PM CDT.
  5 MILES NORTHWEST OF JASPER BY 525 PM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF CRESTLINE...LAWTON...WACO...ASBURY AND NECK CITY ARE
ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM.

IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL CAN BE 
EXPECTED.

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 3733 9476 3711 9475 3710 9447 3735 9410
      3736 9462

$$

BOOKBINDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 8:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	53 min
Jun 12, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	62 min
Jun 12, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	60 min
Jun 12, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	62 min
Jun 12, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	52 min
Jun 12, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Jasper	30 min
Jun 12, 2:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	54 min
Jun 12, 5:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon	6 hr
Jun 12, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	62 min
Jun 12, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Crawford	62 min
Jun 12, 4:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Crawford	3 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 2004 Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2004 Every tornado warning in 2004 Tornadoes in 2004

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.