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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 8:33 AM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 42 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 2000, 8:33 AM CDT (13:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Barry County, MO, Christian County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 8:40 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Powell, MO | |
| Jul 20, 8:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane, MO | |
| Jul 20, 8:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sparta, MO | |
| Jul 20, 9:00 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Rock, 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 1500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KSGF 201334 SVRSGF MOC009-043-119-209-213-201415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 833 AM CDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN TANEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI BARRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI EASTERN MCDONALD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 915 AM CDT * AT 833 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM POWELL TO CASSVILLE TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF NIXA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... INDIAN POINT BY 835 AM CDT. AURORA BY 840 AM CDT. CRANE...GALENA...REEDS SPRING BY 845 AM CDT. MARIONVILLE BY 850 AM CDT. BILLINGS...CLEVER BY 910 AM CDT. THE TOWNS OF JENKINS...WHEELERVILLE...ELSEY...HURLEY AND PONCE DE LEON ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. POWER LINES AND TREES WERE BLOWN OVER IN MCDONALD COUNTY. LAT...LON 3651 9433 3654 9334 3706 9290 3709 9358 TERRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 34 min |
| Jul 20, 6:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade | 4 hr |
| Jul 20, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Greene | 30 min |
| Jul 20, 8:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 8:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark, Taney | 45 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.