Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 84
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 3, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT for 28 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Madison County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Perry County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Texas County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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.
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Madison | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas | 24 min |
| Apr 3, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard | 48 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrew, Bates, Benton, Buchanan, Cass, Clay and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Dunklin, New Madrid, Oregon, Pemiscot, Ripley | 5 hr |
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.