Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 1986, 5:47 PM CST for McDonald County, Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 73 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 1986, 5:47 PM CST (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 1986, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 73 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 12:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Laclede | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.