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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Springfield, MO

September 23, 2001Howell County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 2001, 2:57 PM CDT for Howell County, Missouri. It was in force for 48 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
Sep 23, 2001, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired
Sep 23, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Howell County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 23, 3:05 PM CDTHail 0.75West Plains, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 23, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 12:00Z on 2001-09-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 786 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2001-09-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
786 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.1

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The text

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

685 
WUUS53 KSGF 231958
SVRSGF
MOC091-232045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
257 PM CDT SUN SEP 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HOWELL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 253 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILLOW SPRINGS...OR 17
  MILES WEST OF WEST PLAINS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   WEST PLAINS BY 345 PM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF SILOAM SPRINGS AND POTTERSVILLE 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.

GAEDE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 23, 1:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian23 min
Sep 23, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian, Taney50 min
Sep 23, 2:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDouglas47 min
Sep 23, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFOregon25 min
Sep 23, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFOzark25 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.