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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Springfield, MO

March 9, 2002Dade County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2002, 1:05 AM CST for Dade County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 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: Mar 9, 2002, 1:05 AM CST (07:05 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2002, 1:30 AM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dade County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 8, 11:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 414 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KSGF 090705
SVRSGF
MOC057-090730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
105 AM CST SAT MAR 9 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DADE COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 130 AM CST

* AT 102 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8
  MILES SOUTH OF EL DORADO SPRINGS TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF LOCKWOOD...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   LOCKWOOD BY 110 AM CST.
   GREENFIELD BY 125 AM CST.
   EVERTON BY 130 AM CST.

THE TOWNS OF MEINERT...SYLVANIA...CEDARVILLE...ARCOLA AND NEOLA ARE
ALSO IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS 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.

LAT...LON 3757 9401 3730 9412 3728 9366 3757 9366

FOSTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 11:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	68 min
Mar 9, 12:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	62 min
Mar 9, 12:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Cedar, Hickory, St. Clair	40 min
Mar 9, 12:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	52 min
Mar 9, 1:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	46 min
Mar 9, 1:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	50 min
Mar 9, 1:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	46 min
Mar 9, 1:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	41 min
Mar 9, 1:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas	38 min
Mar 9, 1:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	49 min
Mar 9, 2:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	43 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.