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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Springfield, MO
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 4:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Licking, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 32 min |
| Sep 3, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 31 min |
| Sep 3, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 41 min |
| Sep 3, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 29 min |
| Sep 3, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 45 min |
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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.