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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Springfield, MO

May 23, 2004Phelps County, Pulaski County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2004, 6:09 PM CDT for Phelps County, Pulaski County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 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 23, 2004, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 23, 6:10 PM CDT	HAIL 2	(Tbn)Ft Leonard Wood Aaf, MO	REPORTED BY OTHER FEDERAL.
May 23, 6:10 PM CDT	HAIL 2	(Tbn)Ft Leonard Wood Aaf, MO	REPORTED BY OTHER FEDERAL.

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 23, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 1106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -297 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 780 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 359 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KSGF 232309
TORSGF
MOC161-169-232345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
609 PM CDT SUN MAY 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI.
  SOUTHERN PHELPS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI.

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT.

* AT 609 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FORT LEONARD WOOD...AND MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN
  PULASKI AND SOUTHWESTERN PHELPS COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF
  FORT LEONARD WOOD AND EDGAR SPRINGS.

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 3786 9222 3763 9222 3761 9190 3782 9184

$$

TERRY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	39 min
May 23, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory	49 min
May 23, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	44 min
May 23, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	46 min
May 23, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede	23 min
May 23, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	36 min
May 23, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Jasper, Lawrence	44 min
May 23, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede, Pulaski	43 min
May 23, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	48 min
May 23, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	47 min
May 23, 6:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Lawrence	5 hr
May 23, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	27 min
May 23, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Lawrence	44 min
May 23, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Laclede, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	44 min
May 23, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone	51 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.