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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Springfield, MO

April 28, 2003Shannon County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2003, 5:14 PM CDT for Shannon County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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 28, 2003, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Shannon County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 28, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 91 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -341 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 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.

076 
WUUS53 KSGF 282214
SVRSGF
MOC203-282300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
513 PM CDT MON APR 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN SHANNON COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 508 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO
  BASEBALL SIZE.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MOUNTAIN VIEW...OR 20
  MILES NORTHEAST OF WEST PLAINS...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

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

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING BASEBALL SIZE HAIL IN MOUNTAIN 
VIEW.

THE TOWNS OF TERESITA AND MONTIER ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS OR INSIDE
A VEHICLE IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE
KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO
BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 3689 9165 3705 9163 3690 9148

$$

CRAMER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 8:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	37 min
Apr 28, 9:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	21 min
Apr 28, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	47 min
Apr 28, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	52 min
Apr 28, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	45 min
Apr 28, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	58 min
Apr 28, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	62 min
Apr 28, 4:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Texas	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	62 min
Apr 28, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	65 min
Apr 28, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	62 min
Apr 28, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	66 min
Apr 28, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	58 min
Apr 28, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	66 min
Apr 28, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	62 min
Apr 28, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	58 min
Apr 28, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell	54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.