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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2000, 4:14 PM CDT for Dallas County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 19, 2000, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dallas County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:23 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Buffalo, 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -623 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 378 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 450 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KSGF 192116 SVRSGF MOC059-192200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 414 PM CDT WED APR 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DALLAS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 413 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BUFFALO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL... AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3766 9324 3749 9314 3758 9288 3780 9289 SS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller, Morgan | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 26 min |
| Apr 19, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries | 36 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.