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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Springfield, MO

June 30, 2007Stone County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 2007, 2:09 PM CDT for Stone County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 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 30, 2007, 2:09 PM CDT (19:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2007, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stone County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 32 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: 374 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 703 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KSGF 301910
TORSGF
MOC209-302000-
/O.NEW.KSGF.TO.W.0043.070630T1909Z-070630T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
209 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT.

* AT 208 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS VERY      
  DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT TWO MILES NORTHEAST OF           
  GALENA...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIGHLANDVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST 
  AT 10 MPH.

* THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHEASTERN STONE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF PONCE DE LEON.

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 3682 9349 3684 9349 3691 9346 3694 9343
      3697 9343 3698 9342 3698 9336 3684 9336
      3679 9343

$$

CRAMER

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KSGF 301954
SVSSGF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
253 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007

MOC209-302003-
/O.EXP.KSGF.TO.W.0043.000000T0000Z-070630T2000Z/
STONE MO-
253 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR STONE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 300 PM CDT...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE 
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING IS EXITING STONE 
COUNTY...THUS THE WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING 
FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3682 9349 3684 9349 3691 9346 3694 9343
      3697 9343 3698 9342 3698 9336 3684 9336
      3679 9343

$$

CRAMER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 11:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Lawrence	6 hr
Jun 30, 9:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Miller, Morgan, St. Clair, Vernon	6 hr
Jun 30, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	65 min
Jun 30, 1:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Polk	76 min
Jun 30, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	63 min
Jun 30, 2:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Greene	71 min
Jun 30, 2:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Texas	6 hr
Jun 30, 2:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Christian	74 min
Jun 30, 2:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Lawrence	6 hr
Jun 30, 2:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Texas	6 hr
Jun 30, 3:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Greene, Polk	6 hr
Jun 30, 3:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Polk	48 min
Jun 30, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Stone	27 min
Jun 30, 3:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian	6 hr
Jun 30, 3:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene	33 min
Jun 30, 3:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Shannon	6 hr
Jun 30, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	58 min
Jun 30, 4:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Polk	58 min
Jun 30, 4:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Stone	6 hr
Jun 30, 4:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon	6 hr
Jun 30, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dallas	64 min
Jun 30, 4:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Taney	6 hr
Jun 30, 4:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dallas, Webster	6 hr
Jun 30, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	69 min
Jun 30, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Webster	65 min
Jun 30, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Taney	69 min
Jun 30, 5:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas	6 hr
Jun 30, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Wright	66 min
Jun 30, 5:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Ozark	6 hr
Jun 30, 6:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Wright	6 hr

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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.