Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2001, 12:48 PM CDT for Maries County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2001, 12:48 PM CDT (17:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2001, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maries County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 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 3, 1:23 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Vienna, 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 1171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What 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 Apr 3, 11:55 AM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 11:55 AM CDT, 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1155 AM CDT TUE APR 3 2001 WARM FRONT CURRENTLY LOCATED FROM ABOUT FT. SCOTT TO LEBANON TO WEST OF WEST PLAINS. BEGINNING TO SHOW UP RATHER WELL ON VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGE. CONVECTION TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONT HAS PRODUCED SOME HAIL REPORTS ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA. HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO LOWER AFTERNOON HIGHS TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF THE WARM FRONT. BELIEVE CLOUDS AND RAIN WILL KEEP TEMPS DOWN THERE. HOWEVER...HAVE RAISED HIGHS TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT WHERE CLOUDS HAVE MIXED OUT FAIRLY WELL THIS MORNING AND TEMPS HAVE ALREADY SHOT UP INTO THE 70S. .SGF... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. GAEDE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:15 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1215 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1056 AM IONIA MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 BENTON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
1205 PM 2 N BARNETT MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 MORGAN REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:39 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1239 PM CDT TUE APR 03 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....l
1214 PM ELDON MO .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/01 MILLER REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 10:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 11:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller, Morgan | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 12:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Morgan | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Laclede, Webster | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede, Wright | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Wright | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas | 24 min |
| Apr 3, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell | 62 min |
| Apr 3, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Oregon | 67 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.