Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 2009, 9:23 AM CDT for Douglas County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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
- Mar 8, 2009, 9:23 AM CDT (14:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2009, 10:07 AM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Douglas County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 9:47 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Vanzant, MO | TREES DOWN. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:32 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 857 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 8.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KSGF 081423
TORSGF
MOC067-081530-
/O.NEW.KSGF.TO.W.0009.090308T1423Z-090308T1530Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
923 AM CDT SUN MAR 8 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
DOUGLAS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 1030 AM CDT.
* AT 923 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AVA...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
AVA BY 930 AM CDT.
THE TOWNS OF SQUIRES...BRUSHYKNOB...GENTRYVILLE...DRURY AND VANZANT
ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM.
IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 3701 9282 3707 9246 3705 9209 3680 9210
3680 9280
TIME...MOT...LOC 1424Z 257DEG 48KT 3687 9274
$$
CRAMER2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KSGF 081439
SVSSGF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
939 AM CDT SUN MAR 8 2009
MOC067-081530-
/O.CON.KSGF.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-090308T1530Z/
DOUGLAS MO-
939 AM CDT SUN MAR 8 2009
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FOR DOUGLAS
COUNTY...
AT 938 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO NEAR BRUSHYKNOB...OR 7 MILES EAST OF AVA...MOVING
EAST AT 46 MPH.
THIS TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN
DOUGLAS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF DRURY AND VANZANT.
IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT SUNDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHERN MISSOURI.
&&
LAT...LON 3687 9260 3698 9258 3707 9246 3705 9209
3691 9209 3690 9210
TIME...MOT...LOC 1439Z 254DEG 40KT 3693 9253
$$
CRAMER000
WWUS53 KSGF 081507 RRA
SVSSGF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1007 AM CDT SUN MAR 8 2009
MOC067-081518-
/O.CAN.KSGF.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-090308T1530Z/
DOUGLAS MO-
1007 AM CDT SUN MAR 8 2009
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADO
THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING IS EXITING THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CDT SUNDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHERN MISSOURI.
LAT...LON 3687 9260 3698 9258 3707 9246 3705 9209
3691 9209 3690 9210
TIME...MOT...LOC 1508Z 254DEG 40KT 3702 9214
$$
CRAMERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Vernon | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 6:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 6:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Vernon | 40 min |
| Mar 8, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 51 min |
| Mar 8, 7:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 7:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 39 min |
| Mar 8, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton | 59 min |
| Mar 8, 7:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Hickory, St. Clair | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Polk | 55 min |
| Mar 8, 8:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Morgan | 57 min |
| Mar 8, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 8:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller, Morgan | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Laclede, Webster, Wright | 66 min |
| Mar 8, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede | 40 min |
| Mar 8, 8:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Laclede, Wright | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 9:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 41 min |
| Mar 8, 9:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps, Pulaski | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 9:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 9:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 10:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Howell, Shannon, Texas | 73 min |
| Mar 8, 1:15 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | SGF | Dent, Maries, Oregon, Phelps, Shannon | 5 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.