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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Springfield, MO

February 17, 2000McDonald County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 2000, 3:40 AM CST for McDonald County, Missouri. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Feb 17, 2000, 3:40 AM CST (09:40 UTC)
Expired
Feb 17, 2000, 4:30 AM CST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County McDonald County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:30 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 49 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 00:00Z on 2000-02-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2000-02-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2288 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 170943
SVRSGF
MOC119-171030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
340 AM CST THU FEB 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MCDONALD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.

* UNTIL 430 AM CST.

* AT 336 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...8 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF ANDERSON. THIS
  THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES.
 

LAT...LON 3670 9442 3661 9435 3661 9421 3666 9408
          3676 9417

D.STEINMETZ/D.STEINMETZ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 17, 4:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarry, Lawrence, Stone53 min
Feb 17, 5:25 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFStone, Taney50 min
Feb 17, 8:05 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian, Greene40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.