Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Springfield, MO

April 13, 2002Douglas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT for Douglas County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2002, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Douglas County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KSGF 132315
SVRSGF
MOC067-132345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
613 PM CDT SAT APR 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS EXTENDED THE

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 607 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF   
  HALF DOLLARS...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM 
  WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF DORA IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST DOUGLAS 
  COUNTY...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  DOUGLAS COUNTY.

DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE A LARGE HAIL CORE CONTAINED IN 
THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR 
DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND 
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY 
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY 
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN 
SPRINGFIELD.

LAT...LON 3680 9231 3679 9210 3699 9210

BOOKBINDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	28 min
Apr 13, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	23 min
Apr 13, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark	50 min
Apr 13, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.