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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO

March 29, 2004Vernon County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2004, 2:06 PM CST for Vernon County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 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, 2:06 PM CST (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2004, 2:45 PM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

490 
WUUS53 KSGF 292006
SVRSGF
MOC217-292045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  VERNON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI.

* UNTIL 245 PM CST.

* AT 200 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FULTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF
  PLEASANTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHERN VERNON COUNTY...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF STOTESBURY...METZ
  AND HORTON.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES HAS BEEN REPORTED IN FULTON KANSAS 
WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...TAKE 
IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 3803 9457 3794 9457 3790 9411 3803 9416

$$

SAW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 4:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	38 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

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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.