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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Springfield, MO

May 8, 20004 counties in Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 10:44 PM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 61 min. 2 reports 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: May 8, 2000, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Barton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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
May 8, 10:50 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Lamar, MO
May 8, 11:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Lockwood, 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
May 8, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 1344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KSGF 090345
SVRSGF
MOC011-057-097-109-090445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1044 PM CDT MON MAY 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
  EASTERN BARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
  EASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1040 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF ARCADIA TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOLDEN CITY TO DUENWEG...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THESE SEVERE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE
  HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS... AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   LOCKWOOD BY 1055 PM CDT.
   GREENFIELD BY 1105 PM CDT.
   MILLER BY 1110 PM CDT.
   EVERTON BY 1120 PM CDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...LAMAR
HEIGHTS...FIDELITY...REEDS...AVILLA AND MILFORD.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUND7ERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE
WARNING.

LAT...LON 3764 9443 3733 9426 3698 9444 3727 9364
          3747 9364 3760 9377

RUNNELS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	29 min
May 8, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	56 min
May 8, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Morgan	64 min
May 8, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	39 min
May 8, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar	26 min
May 8, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Hickory, Polk	43 min
May 9, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede	39 min
May 9, 3:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	4 hr
May 9, 6:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone	31 min
May 9, 7:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	3 hr

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.