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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 308, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1996, 10:08 PM CDT for Barry County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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
- Aug 7, 1996, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barry County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 10:16 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 | Seligman, 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 809 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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.
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 Aug 7, 3:33 PM CDT, 6 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:33 PM CDT, 6 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 335 PM CDT WED AUG 7 1996 RAIN CHANCES TONIGHT AND THU MAIN CHALLENGE THIS PERIOD. COLD FRONT AT 19Z EXTENDED FROM UIN-MKC-ICT INTO TX PNHDL WITH A BAND OF TSTMS FROM IRK TO MKC WITHIN BEST MCON AS SEEN ON ADAP. THE TSTMS THAT HAD DVLPD EARLIER THIS AFTN OVER SRN MO ALONG AND AHEAD OF OLD OUTFLOW HAVE EITHER DISSIPATED OR MOVED SOUTH INTO AR. WTR VPR LOOP FULL OF INFORMATION WITH MSTR PLUME EXTENDING ALNG FRNT FROM NM TO MN...AND UPR RIDGE BEGINNING TO REBUILD TO THE WEST OVER SRN PLAINS AS SHRTWV MOVG THROUGH MN ARROWHEAD. MDLS SIMILIAR WITH MN SHRTWV DIGGING TROF OVER NE US AND RIDGE BUILDING BACK ACROSS THE WEST. THEY DO HAVE TIMING DIFFERENCES THOUGH IN SHORT TERM WITH ETA/AVN MOVG FRNT THROUGH QUICKER INTO AR BY MORNING. ETA ALSO MAINTAINS SOME PVA INTO THE DAY ON THU. ATTM FAVOR A SOLN OF FRONT PIVOTING QUICKER OVER NRN MO WITH FRONT SLOWING OVER OK. THIS WL BRING FROPA TO JLN TOWARDS MIDNIGHT AND TO SGF TOWARDS MORNING...BUT THEN SLOW FROPA TIL AFTN ACROSS SCNTRL MO. WHILE DYNAMICS WEAK THIS FAR SOUTH FEEL MCON AND ENOUGH LIFT TO CONT SCT TSTMS INTO CNTRL/SW MO TONIGHT...THEN CONT MENTION OF SHWRS FOR JLN/SGF AREA THROUGH THU MORNING...AND TSTMS FOR SCNTRL MO ON THU. SGF WU 070/088 064/088 063 03331 JLN BU 070/089 064/090 064 03321 RUNNELS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Crawford | 29 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.