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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Springfield, MO

May 22, 1989Stone County, Taney County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1989, 4:52 AM CDT for Stone County, Taney County, Missouri. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1989, 4:52 AM CDT (09:52 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1989, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Stone County, MO, Taney 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 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 54 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 00:00Z on 1989-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1989-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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
May 21, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCedar, Vernon61 min
May 21, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCedar, Dade, Polk59 min
May 21, 11:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDallas, Greene, Webster57 min
May 22, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDade, Greene60 min
May 22, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFWebster60 min
May 22, 1:05 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFGreene25 min
May 22, 1:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFGreene, Webster95 min
May 22, 1:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFCedar, Dade, Polk, Vernon95 min
May 22, 3:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMcDonald, Newton63 min
May 22, 3:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFJasper63 min
May 22, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFCedar, Dade, Polk3 hr
May 22, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFGreene3 hr
May 22, 4:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarry, Lawrence57 min
May 22, 4:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian, Greene68 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.