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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Springfield, MO

March 5, 1996Howell County, Oregon County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 9:28 PM CST for Howell County, Oregon County, Missouri. It was in force for 32 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: Mar 5, 1996, 9:28 PM CST (03:28 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 1996, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Howell County, MO, Oregon County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Mar 5, 10:10 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Thayer, 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 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.

NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 5, 8:43 PM CST, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 8:43 PM CST, 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 5, 4:44 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes before

MOZ056>058-069>071-083-061015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
413 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996

...WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
NIGHT...

WINTER STORM WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
NIGHT...CAMDEN...PULASKI...PHELPS...MARIES...DENT...MILLER...AND MORGAN.
IT INCLUDES THE CITIES OF CAMDENTON...ROLLA...WAYNESVILLE...SALEM...
ELDON...VICHY...AND VERSAILLES.

A SHARP TURN BACK TO WINTER IS FORECAST FOR THE AREA WEDNESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS IN SOUTHERN ARKANSAS WEDNESDAY
AND MOVES NORTHEAST TO WESTERN TENNESSEE WEDNESDAY EVENING.

RAIN WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING.
THEN COLDER AIR WILL MOVE IN WEDNESDAY AND CHANGE THE RAIN TO SNOW FROM
NORTH TO SOUTH MIDDAY OR EARLY AFTERNOON.  SNOW WILL CONTINUE...
...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES...WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THAT THERE IS A PFOTENTIAL FOR 6 OR MORE
INCHES OF SNOW ACROSS THE AREA BY THE TIME THE STORM ENDS THURSDAY
MORNING.

MINOR CHANGES IN THE PREDICTED STORM TRACK WILL CHANGE THE AMOUNT OF
SNOW EXPECTED.  THUS STAY TUNED FOR LATER FORECASTS.

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Special weather statement, Mar 5, 5:58 PM CST, 3 hours 30 minutes before

MOZ082-097-098-104>106-060600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
557 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996

...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL MISSOURI...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
          TANEY...OZARK...DOUGLAS...HOWELL...OREGON....SHANNON...
          AND TEXAS

IT INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BRANSON...WEST PLAINS...EMIMENCE...ALTON...
AVA...AND GAINESVILLE.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS
EVENING...A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE POTENTIAL
FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND TORNADOES.

ONE BATCH OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORMED NEAR WEST PLAINS HAS MOVED EAST
OUT OF THE AREA.   HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN
WEST CENRAL ARKANSAS BETWEEN FORT SMITH AND LITTLE ROCK MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

RIDDLE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 5, 7:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark	58 min
Mar 5, 7:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark	65 min
Mar 5, 7:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell, Shannon	33 min
Mar 5, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	35 min
Mar 5, 8:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	36 min
Mar 5, 8:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell	41 min
Mar 5, 9:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	47 min
Mar 5, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1996 Every 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.