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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 273, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 8:01 AM CDT for Howell County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 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
- Jul 8, 1996, 8:01 AM CDT (13:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1996, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howell County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1821 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
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 Jul 8, 2:29 AM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:29 AM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 228 AM CDT MON JUL 8 1996 TODAY'S PROBLEMS: HOW LONG WILL KS MCS PERSIST...AND HOW MUCH OF AN EFFECT WILL IT HAVE ON HIGHS TODAY AND POPS THIS AFTN? LTST STLT AND 88D DATA INDICATED DUAL MCS SYSTEMS OVER KS HEADED TOWARD CWA. LAST FEW STLT LOOPS INDICATE THAT SRN SYSTEM NEAR ICT IS WINNING BATTLE. MOVMEMENT IS ESE AT 20-30 MPH...SO IT SHOULD MOVE INTO SE KS COUNTIES BY SUNRISE. SVR POTENTIAL IS THERE BUT NOT QUITE SURE IF THAT WILL CONT THRU SUNRISE. ANSWER TO QUESTION #1. 06Z PROFILERS SHOW REASON BEHIND MCS DEVELOPMENT: H5 WAVE ALONG NE/KS BORDER. ALSO...BAND OF SWLY H8 WINDS HELPING FUEL FIRE SOMEWHAT. 00Z MODELS TAKE VORT MAX TO BETWEEN TOP/MCI BY 12Z AND THEN DIFFERENCES SHOW UP: ETA SWINGS SECOND COLD FRONT THRU CWA THIS AFTN...WHILE NGM/AVN WAIT UNTIL THIS EVE/TNGT TO MOVE IT INTO AR. GIVEN RECENT TENDENCY FOR ETA TO RUSH THINGS...FOLLOWING NGM/ AVN LEAD ON THIS ONE. SECOND PART OF PROBLEM OF THE DAY IS NOT QUITE AS CLEAR-CUT: ASSUMING MCS MOVES THRU CWA THIS AM AND WEAKENS...AIRMASS SHOULD BE WORKED OVER SOMEWHAT AND CLOUD DEBRIS SHOULD KEEP TEMPS IN CHECK A LITTLE. STILL... WITH BOUNDARIES FROM CONVECTION LIKELY TO BE SCATTERED ABOUT LIKE COINS IN A FOUNTAIN...AND PLENTY OF RH STILL IN VICINITY...CHC POPS STILL JUSTIFIED. ALSO...CAP WILL CONT TO WEAKEN...INCREASING PCPN CHCS. CWA SHOULD SEE ANOTHER GOOD CHC OF PCPN TNGT AS COLD FRONT FINALLY PUSHES THRU. 40-50% WARRANTED. FOR TUE...CHC POPS MAY BE NEEDED EARLY IN AM AS FRONT CLEARS CWA...BUT SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN WX SHOULD FOLLOW FOR REST OF DAY AS COOLER AND DRIER AIR WORKS INTO THE OZARKS. ALSO...WOULD LIKE TO BREAK 1ST PD OFd ZFP INTO THIS AM/THIS AFTN WITH HIGHER POPS THIS AM IN JLN AND MAYBE SGF GROUPS AND CHC THIS AFTN. SGF EE 086/065 080/060 079 08643 JLN EE 088/067 082/062 081 08743 MS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 4:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ067>069-077>081-088>096-101>105-081440- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 438 AM CDT MON JUL 8 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 746 IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CDT. A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST THIS MORNING...PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. HAIL MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...AND ISOLATED...SHORT LIVED TORNADOES MAY ALSO OCCUR. THE WATCH EXTENDED SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM NEVADA TO CAMDENTON TO GAINESVILLE...AND INCLUDES THE CITIES OF SPRINGFIELD...JOPLIN...LEBANON ...BRANSON...BOLIVAR AND NEVADA. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF BARRY BARTON CEDAR DADE JASPER LAWRENCE MCDONALD NEWTON ST. CLAIR VERNON CHRISTIAN DALLAS DOUGLAS GREENE LACLEDE OZARK POLK STONE TANEY WEBSTER WRIGHT MS
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 7:24 AM CDT, 37 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Hickory, Polk | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 6:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 6:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cedar | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 6:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Hickory | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 6:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Laclede, Webster | 69 min |
| Jul 8, 6:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 69 min |
| Jul 8, 6:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Polk | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 6:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Hickory | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller, Pulaski | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 7:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Morgan | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 7:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Polk | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 7:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Texas | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 8:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon, Shannon | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 8:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 8:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent | 35 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.