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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Springfield, MO

January 21, 1999Morgan County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 21, 1999, 10:39 AM CST for Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 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
Jan 21, 1999, 10:39 AM CST (16:39 UTC)
Expired
Jan 21, 1999, 11:15 AM CST
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Morgan County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1999-01-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 911 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1999-01-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 239 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
911 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.2

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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 Jan 21, 3:48 AM CST, 6 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 3:48 AM CST, 6 hours 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 21, 7:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMiller35 min
Jan 21, 9:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMaries, Miller47 min
Jan 21, 4:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBenton36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.