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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Springfield, MO

September 1, 2000Texas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2000, 3:06 PM CDT for Texas County, Missouri. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Sep 1, 2000, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Texas County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 340 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 245 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, Little Rock, AR at 12:00Z on 2000-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-275 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2269 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KSGF 012007
SVRSGF
MOC215-012030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
306 PM CDT FRI SEP 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 304 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOUSTON...MOVING SOUTH AT
  5 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE
  HAIL...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   HOUSTON BY 330 PM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF SUCESS AND BUCYRUS ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.

LAT...LON 3749 9200 3744 9221 3720 9216 3725 9189

JLT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 1, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTexas29 min
Sep 1, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFHowell33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.