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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 318, NWS Springfield, MO

October 10, 2001Camden County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 10, 2001, 12:20 PM CDT for Camden County, Missouri. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 10, 2001, 12:20 PM CDT (17:20 UTC)
Expired: Oct 10, 2001, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Camden County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 434 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 490 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.6
Supercell composite: 12.8

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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 Oct 10, 6:49 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 6:49 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
649 AM CDT WED OCT 10 2001

ZONE UPDATE ISSUED TO INCREASE TEMPERATURES IN SOUTHWEST
MISSOURI/SOUTHEAST KANSAS COUNTIES. CURRENT READINGS WERE VERY CLOSE
TO EXPECTED HIGHS...SO BUMPED THE HIGHS UP A CATEGORY.

.SGF...
MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR WEDNESDAY FOR ZONES MOZ055>057...
MOZ066>069...MOZ077>081...MOZ088...MOZ090...MOZ093>094.

KS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR WEDNESDAY FOR ZONES KSZ073...KSZ097...
KSZ101.

SUTTON

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 10, 11:25 AM CDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1125 AM CDT WED OCT 10 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1049 AM    PIERCE CITY               MO   WIND DAMAGE
10/10/01   LAWRENCE                       TIN ROOF TORN OFF. TREES
                                          ALSO UPROOTED TO THE EAST
                                          OF PIERCE CITY.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Oct 10, 12:00 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1200 PM CDT WED OCT 10 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1058 AM    2 S GRANBY                MO   WIND DAMAGE
10/10/01   NEWTON                         MOBILE HOME OVERTURNED.
                                          . REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

1140 AM    SPRINGFIELD               MO   WIND DAMAGE
10/10/01   GREENE                         BUILDING DAMAGED AND
                                          POWER LINES DOWN BY
                                          HIGH WINDS AT GRAND AND
                                          NATIONAL. 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
Oct 9, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	43 min
Oct 9, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	39 min
Oct 9, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	41 min
Oct 10, 2:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, Polk	6 hr
Oct 10, 10:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence	52 min
Oct 10, 11:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene	50 min
Oct 10, 12:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	67 min
Oct 10, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone, Taney	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.