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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2003, 9:44 PM CST for Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
- Mar 12, 2003, 9:44 PM CST (03:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2003, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crawford County, KS
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KSGF 130344 SVRSGF KSC037-130415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 944 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CST * AT 936 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS TO 70 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM GIRARD TO CHEROKEE...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... CRAWFORD COUNTY. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS AN EXTENSION OF THE PREVIOUS WARNING WHICH EXPIRED AT 945 PM. THE TOWNS OF LONE OAK...CHICOPEE...RINGO...BEULAH AND YALE ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE LAST 30 MINUTES THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 3751 9485 3734 9485 3734 9464 3751 9464 $$ IZZI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 8:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 39 min |
| Mar 12, 8:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 48 min |
| Mar 12, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 52 min |
| Mar 12, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 10:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 34 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.