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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Springfield, MO

March 26, 2000Taney County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 1:27 PM CST for Taney County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 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: Mar 26, 2000, 1:27 PM CST (19:27 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Taney County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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
Mar 26, 1:40 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 26, 12:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 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.

000 
WUUS53 KSGF 261929
SVRSGF
MOC213-262015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
127 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TANEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.

* UNTIL 215 PM CST.

* AT 122 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR INDIAN POINT...OR JUST WEST OF      
  BRANSON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF 
  PRODUCING LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   BRANSON BY 135 PM CST.
   HOLLISTER BY 135 PM CST.
   MERRIAM WOODS...ROCKAWAY BEACH BY 140 PM CST.
   FORSYTH BY 145 PM CST.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. 
STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  SPOTTERS REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL 
JUST WEST OF THE TANEY/STONE COUNTY LINE AROUND 125 PM.

LAT...LON 3680 9331 3656 9330 3652 9278 3679 9281

HUDSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 11:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	51 min
Mar 26, 12:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	51 min
Mar 26, 12:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	28 min
Mar 26, 12:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade	33 min
Mar 26, 1:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar	50 min
Mar 26, 1:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	45 min
Mar 26, 1:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	48 min
Mar 26, 1:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	31 min
Mar 26, 1:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory, St. Clair	42 min
Mar 26, 2:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Webster	53 min
Mar 26, 2:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Taney	59 min
Mar 26, 2:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	42 min
Mar 26, 2:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Pulaski	64 min
Mar 26, 3:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries, Miller	57 min
Mar 26, 3:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps	57 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.