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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT for Phelps County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phelps County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
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 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 9:25 AM CDT, 9 hours 50 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, 1:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 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 55 minutes before
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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.