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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Springfield, MO

March 29, 2004Dallas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2004, 4:07 PM CST for Dallas County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 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 29, 2004, 4:07 PM CST (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2004, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dallas County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -28 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.

987 
WUUS53 KSGF 292207
SVRSGF
MOC059-292245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
406 PM CST MON MAR 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DALLAS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.

* UNTIL 445 PM CST.

* AT 403 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF URBANA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOLIVAR...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  6 MILES SOUTH OF URBANA BY 415 PM CST.

THE TOWNS OF LOUISBURG...PUMPKIN CENTER...TUNAS...PLAD AND LEADMINE
ARE ALSO IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.

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

LAT...LON 3789 9320 3750 9318 3750 9286 3791 9287

$$

JLT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 2:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	39 min
Mar 29, 2:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	46 min
Mar 29, 2:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	46 min
Mar 29, 2:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	42 min
Mar 29, 3:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	59 min
Mar 29, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	50 min
Mar 29, 3:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	63 min
Mar 29, 3:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	45 min
Mar 29, 3:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone	56 min
Mar 29, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	66 min
Mar 29, 3:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory, Polk	50 min
Mar 29, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	45 min
Mar 29, 4:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	57 min
Mar 29, 4:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	65 min
Mar 29, 4:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	63 min
Mar 29, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	62 min
Mar 29, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	61 min
Mar 29, 5:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.