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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 367, NWS Springfield, MO

July 13, 2003Jasper County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2003, 8:00 AM CDT for Jasper 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 13, 2003, 8:00 AM CDT (13:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2003, 8:45 AM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jasper County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:02 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 nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 62 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.

483 
WUUS53 KSGF 131300
SVRSGF
MOC097-131345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 AM CDT

* AT 757 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PURCELL...OR 11 MILES NORTH OF JOPLIN...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   CARTHAGE BY 820 AM CDT.

THE TOWNS OF NECK CITY...LAKESIDE...BROOKLYN HEIGHTS...CARYTOWN AND
AVILLA 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 3734 9450 3717 9458 3707 9409 3729 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, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	44 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

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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.