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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Springfield, MO

July 11, 2003Hickory County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT for Hickory County, Missouri. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 11, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hickory County, MO

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 11, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 2141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 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 112315
SVRSGF
MOC085-120000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
615 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HICKORY COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT.

* AT 611 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10
  MILES NORTH OF WHEATLAND...OR 29 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLINTON...AND
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   HERMITAGE BY 630 PM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF CROSS TIMBERS AND PRESTON ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM.

HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SOUTHERN BENTON 
COUNTY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...TAKE 
IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

ALSO...DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS 
STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. 
IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY 
IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 3807 9349 3795 9348 3790 9312 3803 9307

$$

IZZI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 11, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	59 min
Jul 11, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	40 min
Jul 11, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	53 min
Jul 11, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Benton	48 min
Jul 11, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede	53 min
Jul 11, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	52 min
Jul 11, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dallas	42 min
Jul 11, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	65 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.