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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Springfield, MO

March 12, 2003Greene County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2003, 11:31 PM CST for Greene County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 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 12, 2003, 11:31 PM CST (05:31 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2003, 12:15 AM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Greene County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:31 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
Mar 12, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 1109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

636 
WUUS53 KSGF 130531
SVRSGF
MOC077-130615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1130 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1215 AM CST

* AT 1126 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR            
  INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING      
  NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.      
  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM PLEASANT     
  HOPE TO REPUBLIC...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   FAIR GROVE...SPRINGFIELD...BATTLEFIELD BY 1135 PM CST.
   STRAFFORD BY 1140 PM CST.

THE TOWNS OF GLIDEWELL...BASSVILLE...GALLOWAY AND TURNERS ARE ALSO IN
THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.

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 3741 9324 3712 9350 3709 9308 3740 9310

$$

CRAMER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 9:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	40 min
Mar 12, 9:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	54 min
Mar 12, 9:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	65 min
Mar 12, 10:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	65 min
Mar 12, 10:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	57 min
Mar 12, 10:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	53 min
Mar 12, 10:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	45 min
Mar 12, 10:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	58 min
Mar 12, 11:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries, Miller	66 min
Mar 12, 11:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	46 min
Mar 12, 11:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone	56 min
Mar 12, 11:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	53 min
Mar 12, 11:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski	37 min
Mar 12, 11:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps	63 min
Mar 13, 12:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	63 min
Mar 13, 12:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	62 min
Mar 13, 12:32 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Newton	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.