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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Springfield, MO

June 18, 1996Ozark County, Taney County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1996, 7:40 PM CDT for Ozark County, Taney County, Missouri. It was in force for 65 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
Jun 18, 1996, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ozark County, MO, Taney County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 323 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1996-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2781 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 1996-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2781 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCedar, Vernon62 min
Jun 18, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDouglas44 min
Jun 18, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarton, Jasper67 min
Jun 18, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDent, Shannon, Texas47 min
Jun 18, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDade42 min
Jun 18, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLawrence, Newton57 min
Jun 18, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFStone42 min
Jun 18, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian, Stone62 min
Jun 18, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTaney56 min
Jun 18, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCherokee, Crawford59 min
Jun 18, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCherokee29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.