Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT for Webster County, Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 29, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 292331
SVRSGF
MOC225-229-300030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
630 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN WRIGHT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
NORTHEASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 628 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF NIANGUA...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF
LEBANON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
WRIGHT AND WEBSTER COUNTIES.
THE TOWNS OF RADER AND GROVESPRING ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM.
GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
LAT...LON 3748 9289 3727 9290 3726 9270 3727 9250
3748 9248 3748 9266
DSWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 29, 3:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 301 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001 THINGS A BIT SLOWER TO GET GOING VERSUS THE THE PAST THREE DAYS...AT LEAST SO FAR. 12Z SOUNDING SHOWING 5H TEMPERATURES A COUPLE OF DEGREES WARMER THAN YESTERDAY. STILL...UPPER LOW CENTERED REMAINS OVER SOUTHERN MO...WITH ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED ACTIVITY POPPING UP. MODIFIED 12Z SOUNDING YIELDS CAPES OF 2000-2500 J/KG. SO ADDITIONAL DIURNAL ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED. PERSISTENT CONVECTION ALSO REMAINS IN PLACE FROM LAST NIGHT'S ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH LEFT EXIT REGION OF 25H JET. THIS ACTIVITY HAS THROWN OFF SOME WEAK OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES INTO SW MO. AS WITH PAST DAYS...WILL CARRY AN EVENING RAIN CHANCE EVERYWHERE. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY SHOULD DIE OFF BY MIDNIGHT. MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE RAIN CHANCES OVER THE WEEKEND. ETA/AVN REMAIN SIMILAR IN SHEARING OUT UPPER LOW OVER MO WHILE DEVELOPING ANOTHER MIDLEVEL CIRCULATION OVER THE TX GULF COAST. WATER VAPOR SHOWING THIS SECOND CIRCULATION NICELY. AS A RESULT... WARMING MIDLEVEL TEMPERATURES SHOULD LESSEN RAIN CHANCE TOMORROW. WITH 5H HEIGHTS BUILDING INTO THE FORECAST AREA SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...RAIN CHANCES SEEM NEAR NIL FOR LATE IN THE WEEKEND. COLD FRONT SINKS INTO NORTHERN MO ON SUNDAY...BUT BELIEVE ANY ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN WELL TO THE NORTH. IN THE EXTENDED...HEIGHTS BUILD OUT WEST AND NORTHWEST FLOW BECOMES ESTABLISHED OVER THE REGION. MRF PUSHES FRONT INTO SOUTHERN MO WEDNESDAY AND INTO NORTHERN AR ON THURSDAY. PROXIMITY OF FRONT COUPLE WITH NORTHWEST FLOW SPELL A CHANCE FOR RAIN WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. PRELIMINARY FORECAST ONLY: FCSTID = 26/DSA SGF 64 83 65 O86 / 50 30 30 10 JLN 65 85 67 88 / 50 30 30 10 UNO 64 82 64 84 / 50 30 30 10 VIH 64 83 64 84 / 50 30 20 10 .SGF... MO...NONE. KS...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-292300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 100 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001 ...SCATTERED STRONG AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE... SCATTERED STRONG AND ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA. THE ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF DIME SIZED HAIL AND LOCALIZED DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. BECAUSE OF WEAK UPPER LEVEL STEERING WINDS...INDIVIDUAL STORMS WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY AND THUS PRODUCE ISOLATED AREAS OF EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING. BECAUSE OF SLIGHTLY MORE STABLE CONDITIONS IN THE MIDLEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WHEN COMPARED TO CONDITIONS 24 HOURS AGO...THE OVERALL SEVERE THREAT IS SOMEWHAT LESS THAN ON THURSDAY. THOSE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPID STORM DEVELOPMENT AND THE POSSIBILITY OF FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PERSONS ON AREA CREEKS AND RIVERS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER IN AND NEAR AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER STATEMENTS...BUT BECAUSE OF THE ISOLATED NATURE OF THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...WIDESPREAD ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. .EXTENDED OUTLOOK... A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL SATURDAY AFTERNOON. DSA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 5:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Taney | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.