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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Springfield, MO

July 7, 1995Ripley County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1995, 4:16 PM CDT for Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1995, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Ripley County, MO

The radar

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 219 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1995-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 221 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 1995-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:37 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
MOZ106>108-072140-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
337 PM CDT FRI JUL 7 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...

AT 330PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
IN NORTHWEST RIPLEY COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF BARDLEY...MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

NO REPORTS OF ANY DAMAGE WITH THIS STORM AT THIS TIME...BUT PERSONS IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS
AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

SHUMWAY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCarter54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.