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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Springfield, MO

April 5, 1988Jasper County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1988, 3:16 PM CDT for Jasper County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 5, 1988, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 1988, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Jasper 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -285 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1334 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 265 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 
TTAA00 KSGF 052016
SVRSGF
MOC009-097-052100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
316 PM CDT TUE APR 5 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
      BARRY...JASPER

AT 310 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM 20 NORTH OF JOPLIN TO AT 10 WEST OF JOPLIN. THESE THUNDER-
STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS..IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH
..DESTRUCTIVE HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

HEAVY RAINS WILL QUICKLY FLOOD SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.

THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE( OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF ONE IS SPOTTED.

 MURPHY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	44 min
Apr 5, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	51 min
Apr 5, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Jasper	38 min
Apr 5, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	61 min
Apr 5, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar	61 min
Apr 5, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	62 min
Apr 5, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	62 min
Apr 5, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Polk	48 min
Apr 5, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	48 min
Apr 5, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	66 min
Apr 5, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Webster	57 min
Apr 5, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone	59 min
Apr 5, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	59 min
Apr 5, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark	65 min
Apr 5, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.