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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 2004, 8:25 PM CDT for Ozark County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 22, 2004, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2004, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ozark County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 8:50 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Noble, MO |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 543 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
527 WFUS53 KSGF 230125 TORSGF MOC153-230230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 825 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OZARK COUNTY IN MISSOURI. * UNTIL 930 PM CDT. * AT 821 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES EAST OF TANEYVILLE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AVA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN OZARK COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF THORNFIELD...WASOLA...NOBLE... ROCKBRIDGE...BRIXEY AND DORA. THIS STORM WILL TRACK ALONG THE DOUGLAS OZARK COUNTY LINE. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF NORTHERN OZARK. 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 3680 9278 3662 9277 3660 9215 3679 9213 $$ IZZI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Stone | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Taney | 61 min |
| Apr 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 59 min |
| Apr 22, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 53 min |
| Apr 22, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | McDonald | 61 min |
| Apr 22, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 60 min |
| Apr 22, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 79 min |
| Apr 22, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 6:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 8:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald | 53 min |
| Apr 23, 10:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 10:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Newton | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 5:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 5 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 41 min |
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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.