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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Springfield, MO

May 4, 1996Miller County, Pulaski County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1996, 6:24 AM CDT for Miller County, Pulaski County, Missouri. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports 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: May 4, 1996, 6:24 AM CDT (11:24 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 1996, 7:30 AM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Miller County, MO, Pulaski County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 4, 6:25 AM CDT	Hail 1.75	Lake Ozark, MO
May 4, 6:56 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ft Leonard Wood, 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1494 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1117 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

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 May 4, 2:21 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 2:21 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
220 AM CDT SAT MAY 4 1996

MAIN THREAT IS MORNING SVR WX AND HVY RAIN...MNLY CNTRL MO.

NO NEW PROFILER DATA SINCE 04Z BUT AT THAT TIME STRONG LOW LEVEL JET
OF 60 KT PLOWING NORTH FROM CNTRL OKLA INTO CNTRL KS FUELING MCS
DEVELOPING NORTH OF WARM FRONT ACROSS CNTRL KS.  SEEING NEW DVLPMT
WITH 60 VIL N OF CNU KS ATTM.

THIS MCS WILL ROLE ESE THRU CNTRL MO AND INTO SCNTRL MO THIS MORNING
WITH LOCALLY SVR WX AND R+.  FFG GUIDANCES ARE LOWEST ACROSS AREA
FROM BENTON TO CAMDEN TO TEXAS AND DENT COUNTIES AND WOULD DEFINITELY
KEEP FLASH FLOOD WATCH GOING THIS AREA.  FOR SGF/JLN CONDITIONS ARE NOT
THAT WET AND WE COULD TAKE AN INCH OR TWO WITHOUT MAJOR PROBLEMS.
AM NOT IN FAVOR OF EXTENDING FFA FOR AREAS SOUTH OF A JLN-SGF TO UNO
LINE.

30 PCT AGAIN THIS AFTN LOOKS GOOD...BUT MOST OF ENERGY TO BE EAST OF FCST
AREA.   MODEL GUIDANCE SHOWS 50H SHORT WAVE PRODUCING THIS MCS QUITE
WELL MOVING INTO OHIO VALLEY THIS EVE.   FRONT TO SLIP INTO ARK ON
SUNDAY PROVIDING SOME RELIEF.

CCF INFO
SGF TE 078/063 075/059 070 06533
JLN EE 083/065 078/060 072 06333

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 4, 2:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-041210-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
208 AM CDT SAT MAY 4 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 290 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
UNTIL 9 AM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:

IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...BOURBON AND CRAWFORD.

IN MISSOURI...BENTON...MORGAN...HICKORY...ST CLAIR...VERNON...CEDAR...
BARTON...DADE...POLK...GREENE...DALLAS...WEBSTER...WRIGHT...LACLEDE...
TEXAS...PULASKI...PHELPS...CAMDEN...MARIES...AND MILLER.

THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF PITTSBURG KS....FORT SCOTT KS...
SPRINGFIELD...NEVADA...WARSAW...LEBANON...ROLLA..CAMDENTON...HOUSTON...
AND ELDON.

STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO STATION OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY
WARNINGS OR FURTHER STATEMENTS.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 3:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	44 min
May 4, 4:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	34 min
May 4, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	68 min
May 4, 5:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	58 min
May 4, 5:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	47 min
May 4, 5:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Hickory	65 min
May 4, 6:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede	59 min
May 4, 6:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton	3 hr
May 4, 6:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Phelps, Texas	62 min
May 4, 7:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	67 min
May 4, 7:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	33 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.