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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1996, 6:56 PM CDT for Dent County, Texas County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1996, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dent County, MO, Texas County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Sligo, MO |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 381 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 100 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 28, 9:25 AM CDT, 9 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 9:25 AM CDT, 9 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 925 AM CDT SUN APR 28 1996 FCST PROB WILL BE POTENTIAL FOR SVR TRW REDEVELOPMENT THIS AFT/EVE. FIRST LINE OF SVR TRW HAS PUSHED OUT OF AREA AND WEAKENED WITH SCT TRW BEHIND MAIN LINE. SGF SOUNDING WAS ZAPPED IN TRW THIS MORNING. 50KT LLJ NOSING INTO S MO AHEAD OF LOW LOCATED OVER OK. 850 10-15 DWPNTS POOLED OVER CNTRL OK AND SW MO. WARM FRONT LOCATED ALONG MO/AR BORDER WITH DWPNTS IN THE 60S JUST TO THE S OF THE FRONT. INSTABILITIES WILL CLIMB AS THE DAY PROGRESSES AND AS DWPTNS BEGIN TO INCREASE. CAPES PROGGED AT 1000+ WITH LI'S EXPECTED IN THE -3 TO -5 RANGE BY AFTERNOON WILL MOST LIKELY CAUSE ANOTHER RD OF SVR WX TO DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS CWA. FCST TEMPS LOOK A BIT ON THE HIGH SIDE AND WOULD GO MORE IN LINE WITH THE FAN GUID. WITH RAIN/CLDS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON WILL NOT SEE MUCH SUN TO HEAT THE ATMOSPHERE. .TOP...ZONE$S LOOK GOOD. .STL...LOWER TEMPS INTO THE 60S. LINDENBERG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 1:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-291200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 100 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1996 THE FOLLOWING OUTLOOK CONTAINS INFORMATION FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS BOURBON CHEROKEE CRAWFORD IN SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI BARRY DALLAS LACLEDE OREGON STONE BARTON DENT LAWRENCE OZARK TANEY BENTON DOUGLAS MARIES PHELPS TEXAS CAMDEN GREENE MCDONALD POLK VERNON CEDAR HICKORY MILLER PULASKI WEBSTER CHRISTIAN HOWELL MORGAN SHANNON WRIGHT DADE JASPER NEWTON ST CLAIR ...THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS LOCATED ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. A WARM FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND INTO THE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE. SOUTH OF THE WARM WAS AN UNSTABLE AIR MASS WITH DEW POINTS IN THE 60S. THE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO TRACK NORTHEAST INTO MISSOURI TODAY HELPING TO DRAW THE MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS INTO THE AREA. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON IN THIS UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI AND SHIFT EASTWARD DURING THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. DUE TO THE RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE AREA FROM THE PREVIOUS STORMS...THE GROUND IS VERY SATURATED AND WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING MAINLY IN LOW LYING AREAS AND NEAR RISING CREEKS AND STREAMS. ANYONE OUT AND ABOUT TODAY SHOULD REMEMBER NOT TO DRIVE IN AREAS WHERE WATER IS COVERING THE ROADWAYS AND TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF WATER BEGINS TO RISE. IF CAMPING OUT TONIGHT...CHOOSE YOUR CAMPSITE CAREFULLY. REMEMBER TO AV\OID LOW AREAS THAT WOULD FLOOD EASILY DURING HEAVY RAINFALL EVENTS. SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT SHOULD THEY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY. LINDENBERG
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 1:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-290040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 136 PM CDT SUN APR 28 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 7PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI FOR THOSE AREAS GENERALLY EAST OF AN OZARK TO CAMDENTON LINE. WHILE NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURING IN THE WATCH AREA...WARM MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WAS MOVING NORTHWARD BEHIND A WARM FRONT AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP IN THIS AREA THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE THE APPROPRIATE SAFETY MEASURES SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED AT A LATER TIME. LINDENBERG
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 4:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 3:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 69 min |
| Apr 28, 5:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 5:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Stone | 60 min |
| Apr 28, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Webster | 61 min |
| Apr 28, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 61 min |
| Apr 28, 6:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 6:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 58 min |
| Apr 28, 6:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 58 min |
| Apr 28, 7:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski, Texas | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 64 min |
| Apr 28, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent | 64 min |
| Apr 28, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Hickory | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 4:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan, St. Clair | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Lawrence | 49 min |
| Apr 28, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Greene, Polk | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps, Pulaski | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Crawford | 64 min |
| Apr 28, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 11:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.