Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2001, 1:43 PM CST for Christian County, Stone County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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
- Feb 24, 2001, 1:43 PM CST (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Christian County, MO, Stone County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 2:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Fair Grove, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 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 241943
SVRSGF
MOC043-077-209-242030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
143 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 230 PM CST
* AT 141 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM EVERTON TO 8 MILES
NORTHWEST OF BILLINGS TO 9 MILES EAST OF PURDY...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 50 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL TO THE
SIZE OF NICKELS...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
BILLINGS...KIMBERLING CITY BY 150 PM CST.
CRANE...INDIAN POINT...REPUBLIC BY 155 PM CST.
BROOKLINE...CLEVER...GALENA BY 200 PM CST.
BATTLEFIELD BY 210 PM CST.
SPRINGFIELD...NIXA BY 215 PM CST.
OZARK BY 220 PM CST.
THE TOWNS OF LAMPE...CAPE FAIR...BOIS DARC...ELSEY AND CAVE SPRINGS
ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOS WITH LITTLE ADVANCE
WARNING.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
SPRINGFIELD.
LAT...LON 3740 9363 3651 9359 3651 9330 3681 9331
3682 9308 3740 9308
HUDSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 4:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Greene, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 12:47 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 1:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence, Newton | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 1:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence, Stone | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 2:09 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Taney | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 2:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 29 min |
| Feb 24, 3:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 3:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Webster, Wright | 38 min |
| Feb 24, 3:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Ozark | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 3:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 4:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Barton, Christian, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Texas | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 38 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.