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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Springfield, MO

March 24, 1988Vernon County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1988, 4:18 PM CST for Vernon County, Missouri. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 1988, 4:18 PM CST (22:18 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1988, 5:15 PM CST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Vernon 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1988-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 272 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1988-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 142 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
627 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
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 3:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFVernon55 min
Mar 24, 4:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarton, Jasper55 min
Mar 24, 4:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMcDonald, Newton57 min
Mar 24, 4:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCedar, Dade63 min
Mar 24, 4:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLawrence63 min
Mar 24, 5:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFGreene, Polk80 min
Mar 24, 5:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarry, Christian, Stone80 min

Nearby

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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.