Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1997, 12:05 AM CDT for Barton County, Vernon 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
- Jul 9, 1997, 12:05 AM CDT (05:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1997, 1:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barton County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 090507 RRA SVRSGF MOC011-217-090610- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1205 AM CDT WED JUL 9 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BARTON COUNTY - SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI VERNON COUNTY - WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 110 AM CDT * SOME AREAS AFFECTED OSKALOOSA AREAS ALONG THE VERNON BARTON COUNTY LINE * AT 1203 AM SPRINGFIELD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE TOWN OF ARCADIA AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE T2ELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. LINDENBERG/RUNNELS
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, 2:19 PM CDT, 9 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:19 PM CDT, 9 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 210 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 1997 FCST PROB OF THE PD...POPS... WELL DEFINED MCV ROAMING THRU CNTRL MO ATTM...WITH KSGF 88D SHOWING EYE WITH FEW TSRA NR COU/JEF. OTHERWISE OUTFLOW FROM MCS PUSHED WELL TO OUR SOUTH INTO ARK/ERN OKLA FIRING STORMS FROM NR FSM TO JBR. ANOTHER WELL DEFINED BOUNDARY SEEN OVR CNTRL KS FROM WK SFC LOW NR HYS SSE TO BTWN PNC/END OKLA. THE TWO ABOVE AREAS SHOULD STAND THE BEST CHC OF SEEING TSRA THIS AFTN/EVE. ATMOSPHERE OVER SW MO/SE KS HAS STABLIZED QUITE A BIT...BUT WITH WARMING MAY SEE WIDELY SCT TSRA FORM LATE THIS AFTN/EVE...WITH BEST CHC COU TO UNO AREA EAST CLOSER TO MCV. CONFIDENCE THIS FCST IS LOW AS MESOSCALE FEATURES MAKE TSTM FORECASTING VERY DIFFICULT. WILL CONTINUE TO SIDE WITH NGM POSITIONING OF FRONT AND ITS OTHER FEATURES THIS PD. NGM SHOWS STRONG MOIST CONVERGENCE OVR SCNTRL KS AT 00Z AND WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWING MOISTURE SURGING NORTH INTO CO/WRN KS. THUS THINK COMPLEX OF STORMS MAY GET GOING TONIGHT OVR WRN OR CNTRL KS/ERN CO/PSBLY SW NEBRASKA. IF THIS HAPPENS ANY MCS WOULD SLIDE SE AND SHOULD JUST BRUSH WRN PART OF CWA....BUT CONFIDENCE ON THIS IS NOT HIGH. OTHERWISE...EXPECT COLD FRONT TO OUR NORTH TO SLIDE SLOWLY SOUTH INTO NRN MO AND THIS MAY CAUSE A FEW TSRA TONIGHT. FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...FRONT TO SLIDE SOUTH...WITH BIGGEST PUSH OVR KY/TN AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE GREAT LAKES. THINK FRONT TO STALL OUT NR A BNA-SGF-RSL LINE BY WED NIGHT...AND THEN BEGIN TO RETURN NORTH ON THURSDAY. WITH FRONT IN AREA WILL NEED TO CARRY POPS EACH PERIOD BUT CONFIDENCE IS LOW SO WILL KEEP IT AT 30 PCT. AS FOR TEMPS...WILL TEND TOWARD FWC...WITH ONLY MINOR MODIFCATIONS. MY THOUGHTS FOR TONIGHT...(FOLLOWS WRKZFP FROM STL WELL) ALL AREAS...PTLY CLDY...30 OR 40 POP...LOWS MID/UPR 60S. SW 5-10. CCF SGF BB 066/084 066/084 063 06333 JLN BB 068/085 067/085 065 06333 RIDDLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Lawrence | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone, Taney | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 12:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar, Vernon | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 12:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dade | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 2:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Newton | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Taney | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald, Newton | 6 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.