Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 1996, 5:45 PM CST for Barry County, Lawrence County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 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 14, 1996, 5:45 PM CST (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 1996, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barry County, MO, Lawrence County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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 14, 5:49 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Monett, 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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 3 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
- 574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 11:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 30 min |
| Mar 14, 11:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon | 63 min |
| Mar 14, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 12:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Hickory | 47 min |
Nearby
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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.