Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2004, 6:35 AM CDT for Cedar County, Missouri. It was in force for 55 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 16, 2004, 6:35 AM CDT (11:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2004, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cedar County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 2006 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KSGF 161135
SVRSGF
MOC039-161230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
634 AM CDT FRI JUL 16 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CEDAR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.
* UNTIL 730 AM CDT.
* AT 630 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EL DORADO SPRINGS...OR 16
MILES EAST OF NEVADA...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
NEAR STOCKTON BY 655 AM CDT.
NEAR EL DORADO SPRINGS BY 635 CDT.
THE TOWNS OF CEDAR SPRINGS...FILLEY...CAPLINGER MILLS...WAGONER...
ARNICA...UMBER VIEW HEIGHTS...BEARCREEK AND MASTERS ARE ALSO IN THE
PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES LEADING KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
LAT...LON 3789 9406 3760 9407 3759 9381 3758 9364
3782 9366 3782 9384 3787 9384
$$
CRAMERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 6:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 44 min |
| Jul 16, 6:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Maries, Phelps | 6 hr |
| Jul 16, 7:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dent, Howell, Oregon, Shannon, Texas | 6 hr |
| Jul 16, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 59 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.