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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 322, NWS Springfield, MO

September 23, 1996Shannon County, Texas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 1996, 11:42 AM CDT for Shannon County, Texas County, Missouri. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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: Sep 23, 1996, 11:42 AM CDT (16:42 UTC)
Expired: Sep 23, 1996, 12:45 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Shannon County, MO, Texas County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:44 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
Sep 23, 12:20 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Cedargrove, MO
Sep 23, 12:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Houston, 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -431 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 400 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 397 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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 Sep 23, 10:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 10:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1005 AM CDT MON SEP 23 1996

KSGF 88D INDICATING STG-SVR TSTMS CURRENTLY MOVG ACRS THE NRN CWA.  THIS IS
IN ASSSOCIATION WITH A WRM FNT XTNDG ROUGHLY ALG THE MO RVR ATTM.  AT H8...
LLVL JET AND WAA XTNDS FROM SWRN OK THRU CNTRL MO.  AT THE UPR LVLS...CWA
LIES WITHIN AN AREA OF UPR LVL DIFF WITH THE H3 SRN JET OVR SRN OK AND
THE NRN JET OF ARND 90KTS OVR SD.

WITH RELATIVELY CLR SKIES OVR SERN KS-SWRN MO...WOULD XPCT STG HTG TO OCCUR
BY AFTN.  WITH LOTS OF MOISTURE IN PLACE...A GOOD LLVL JET...AN APRCHG FNT...
...AND OUTFLW BNDRYS FROM THIS MRNGS CNVCTN...WOULD XPCT SVR TSTMS TO FIRE THIS
AFTN PER SPC DISCUSSION.

WOULD NOT RECOMMEND ANY CHGS ATTM...BUT WOULD KEEP MY EYE ON MAX TEMPS IN
THE SGF/JLN GRP AS WE ARE ALREADY APRCHG THE LWR END OF THE MAX TEMP RANGE.
IF UPDTS MADE...WOULD UP POPS IN SCND PD AS TSTMS MAY LAST INTO THE EVENING.

GAEDE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 23, 11:27 AM CDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI
1126 AM CDT MON SEP 23 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0840 AM    TUSCUMBIA                 MO   1.75 INCH HAIL
09/23/96   MILLER

0850 AM    ST ELIZABETH              MO   .75 INCH HAIL
09/23/96   MILLER                         DIME HAIL ALSO REPORTED AT
                                          MARYS HOME

0920 AM    BRUMLEY                   MO   .75 INCH HAIL
09/23/96   MILLER

0925 AM    BRINKTOWN                 MO   .75 INCH HAIL
09/23/96   MARIES
0935 AM    BRINKTOWN                 MO   .75 INCH HAIL
09/23/96   MARIES

1025 AM    ST JAMES                  MO   1.25 INCH HAIL
09/23/96   PHELPS

RUNNELS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 23, 8:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	31 min
Sep 23, 8:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries, Miller	50 min
Sep 23, 8:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Miller	2 hr
Sep 23, 9:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	44 min
Sep 23, 10:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps	43 min
Sep 23, 11:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden	3 hr
Sep 23, 11:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	48 min
Sep 23, 12:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Morgan	3 hr
Sep 23, 12:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Maries, Miller	3 hr
Sep 23, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	46 min
Sep 23, 1:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar	43 min
Sep 23, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Greene	49 min
Sep 23, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	46 min
Sep 23, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	50 min
Sep 23, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Greene	53 min
Sep 23, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	63 min
Sep 23, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	44 min
Sep 23, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	64 min
Sep 23, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark, Texas	66 min
Sep 23, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Lawrence	44 min
Sep 23, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	67 min
Sep 23, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon, Shannon	46 min
Sep 23, 5:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Hickory	3 hr
Sep 23, 5:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Greene	3 hr
Sep 23, 6:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	St. Clair	2 hr
Sep 23, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	46 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.