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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Springfield, MO

September 3, 2000Texas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2000, 4:05 PM CDT for Texas County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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
Sep 3, 2000, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Sep 3, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Texas County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 3, 4:35 PM CDTHail 0.75Licking, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 2000-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 705 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 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
705 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-267 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2266 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

953 
WUUS53 KSGF 032105
SVRSGF
MOC215-032145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
405 PM CDT SUN SEP 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 401 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LICKING...OR 13 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF FORT LEONARD WOOD...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. THIS
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF
  QUARTERS...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   LICKING BY 425 PM CDT.

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

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3761 9189 3760 9211 3731 9208 3735 9180

BOOKBINDER/SUTTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 3, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTexas32 min
Sep 3, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTexas31 min
Sep 3, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFHowell41 min
Sep 3, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDouglas29 min
Sep 3, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFHowell, Ozark45 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.