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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 430, NWS Springfield, MO

July 31, 2003Stone County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT for Stone County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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 31, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stone County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 31, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 38 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: 57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -180 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

991 
WUUS53 KSGF 312228
SVRSGF
MOC209-312315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
528 PM CDT THU JUL 31 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT.

* AT 524 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL
  SIZE...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS   
  LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF REEDS SPRING...OR 14 MILES NORTHWEST 
  OF BRANSON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   REEDS SPRING BY 540 PM CDT.
   INDIAN POINT BY 555 PM CDT.

THE TOWN OF SILVER DOLLAR CITY IS ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3687 9341 3677 9355 3656 9332 3682 9332

$$

BOOKBINDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	41 min
Jul 31, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	42 min
Jul 31, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	39 min
Jul 31, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	61 min
Jul 31, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	46 min
Jul 31, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller, Morgan	61 min
Jul 31, 4:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Greene	3 hr
Jul 31, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Webster	56 min
Jul 31, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller, Morgan	53 min
Jul 31, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	65 min
Jul 31, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	30 min
Jul 31, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Webster	58 min
Jul 31, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski	57 min
Jul 31, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	48 min
Jul 31, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	62 min
Jul 31, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone	30 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.