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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Springfield, MO

July 13, 2003Newton County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2003, 7:31 AM CDT for Newton 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: Jul 13, 2003, 7:31 AM CDT (12:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2003, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Newton County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:32 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 54 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: 1689 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 6.4

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The text

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

753 
WUUS53 KSGF 131231
SVRSGF
MOC145-131315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
731 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 AM CDT

* AT 727 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF
  NICKELS...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR SHOAL CREEK DRIVE...OR NEAR JOPLIN...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   DIAMOND BY 755 AM CDT.
   NEOSHO BY 805 AM CDT.
   GRANBY BY 810 AM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF SHOAL CREEK ESTATES...REDINGS MILL...CLIFF VILLAGE...
DENNIS ACRES AND STARK CITY 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 3714 9451 3701 9466 3668 9427 3687 9406

$$

BROWNING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 6:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	40 min
Jul 13, 8:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	45 min
Jul 13, 8:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	43 min
Jul 13, 9:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	32 min
Jul 13, 9:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald	64 min
Jul 13, 9:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence, Newton	61 min
Jul 13, 10:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	48 min
Jul 13, 10:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	63 min
Jul 13, 11:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	73 min
Jul 13, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	63 min
Jul 13, 12:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	69 min
Jul 13, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	77 min
Jul 13, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	76 min
Jul 13, 2:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry	3 hr
Jul 13, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	53 min
Jul 13, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	55 min
Jul 13, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.