Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2003, 6:27 PM CDT for Benton County, Hickory County, St. Clair County, Missouri. It was in force for 63 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
- Apr 24, 2003, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Benton County, MO, Hickory County, MO, St. Clair County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KSGF 242327
SVRSGF
MOC015-085-185-250030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
627 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN HICKORY COUNTY IN MISSOURI
NORTHEASTERN ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN MISSOURI
SOUTHERN BENTON COUNTY IN MISSOURI
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 626 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 7 MILES EAST OF OSCEOLA...OR 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF
STOCKTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
WARSAW BY 715 PM CDT.
THE TOWNS OF GERSTER...VISTA...QUINCY...HARPER AND ICONIUM ARE 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 3802 9374 3789 9358 3796 9339 3819 9313
3839 9338 3818 9374
$$
LINDENBERGWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 24, 2:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 2:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 255 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003 NEARLY STACKED LOW PRESSURE WAS MAKING ITS WAY INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. A DRY LINE CURVED INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...AND HAD SLOWED ITS EASTWARD PROGRESSION DRAMATICALLY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED CONVECTION HAD DEVELOPED JUST AHEAD OF THE DRY LINE ACROSS FAR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI BUT DISSIPATED AS IT MOVED EAST INTO A MORE STABLE AIRMASS. TEMPERATURES REMAIN IN THE 50S UNDER THE CLOUDS AND AREAS OF FOG ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI BUT HAD CLIMBED INTO THE MID 70S AT JOPLIN. CLEARING HAD TAKEN PLACE JUST AHEAD OF THE DRY LINE WHERE THERE WAS A NARROW AXIS OF INCREASING INSTABILITY. MODIFIED 18Z SOUNDING AT SPRINGFIELD YIELDS CAPES AROUND 2100 J/KG. LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG THE BOUNDARY...AN APPROACHING VORTICITY LOBE AS DEPICTED BY WATER VAPOR...AND STEEPENING LAPSE RATES WILL LIKELY INITIATE CONVECTION ALONG THE DRY LINE BY 5 PM. FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR AND 0-3 KM HELICITIES NEAR 400 SUPPORT SUPERCELLS. IT STILL APPEARS THAT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SEVERE STORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING WITH POTENTIAL OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. ACTIVITY THAT DEVELOPS WILL LIKELY DECREASE IN INTENSITY AFTER SUNSET AND PUSHES EAST INTO MORE STABLE AIR. THE UPPER LOW WILL MAKES ITS WAY INTO WESTERN MISSOURI TONIGHT. DEEP CYCLONIC FLOW AND UPPER LEVEL COLD POOL WILL BRING SHOWERS BACK INTO THE AREA OVERNIGHT. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY AS THE LOW TRACKS ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI. THIS WILL ALSO RESULT IN A RATHER COOL DAY. SUNSHINE AND WARMER TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN SATURDAY AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES EAST OF THE AREA. A SHORTWAVE WILL TRACK ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIER OF THE U.S. LATE IN THE WEEKEND AND CAUSE A FRONT TO SAG SOUTHEAST INTO THE REGION LATE SUNDAY. THIS BOUNDARY WILL MEANDER ACROSS THE REGION EARLY NEXT WEEK AS THE MEAN UPPER TROUGH POSITION SETS UP ACROSS THE WESTERN U.S. THIS WILL SET UP A UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN WITH THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. FORECAST GRIDS HAVE BEEN SENT. .SGF... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. FOSTER
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 24, 3:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-251100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 325 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... AND POSSIBLY A FEW TORNADOES. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL RAPIDLY DEVELOP ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI BETWEEN 4 AND 7 PM. THESE STORMS WILL SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE MISSOURI OZARKS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE PRIMARY RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE EAST OF A LINE FROM NEVADA...TO SPRINGFIELD...TO BRANSON. THE POTENTIAL OF SEVERE STORMS WILL PERSIST INTO THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. DISCUSSION: STRONG LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS DURING THE AFTERNOON WHILE A DRY LINE PUSHES SLOWLY EAST ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. AN AXIS OF INCREASING INSTABILITY IN AN AREA OF CLEARING AHEAD OF THE DRY LINE WILL SUPPORT RAPID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATE THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG WIND SHEAR WILL SUPPORT SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE PRIMARY RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ACROSS AREAS THAT HAVE CLEARED OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THE STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHERN MISSOURI OZARKS THIS EVENING. THE SEVERE STORM THREAT WILL LIKELY DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET...AND AS ACTIVITY MOVES INTO MORE STABLE AIR ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG AND EAST OF A NEVADA TO SPRINGFIELD LINE. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF FOSTER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:50 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
550 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0549 PM SMALLETT MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/03 DOUGLAS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
CRAMERLocal storm report, Apr 24, 5:59 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
559 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0558 PM 2 S AVA MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/24/03 DOUGLAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0559 PM 5 SW AVA MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/03 DOUGLAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, Apr 24, 6:02 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
602 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0601 PM GOODHOPE MO .88 INCH HAIL
04/24/03 DOUGLAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, Apr 24, 6:04 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
604 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0602 PM APPLETON CITY MO .75 INCH HAIL
04/24/03 ST.CLAIR REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
CRAMERLocal storm report, Apr 24, 6:16 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
616 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM 2 W TOLEDO MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/03 OZARK REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
CRAMERLocal storm report, Apr 24, 6:23 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
623 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0604 PM AVA MO 1 INCH HAIL
04/24/03 DOUGLAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0613 PM AVA MO 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/24/03 DOUGLAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark, Taney | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Wright | 49 min |
| Apr 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 49 min |
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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.