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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 226, NWS Springfield, MO

August 25, 2005Bourbon County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2005, 1:27 AM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 25, 2005, 1:27 AM CDT (06:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2005, 2:32 AM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bourbon County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:28 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 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 1962 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1196 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.6

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What 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 Aug 24, 11:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 11:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 8:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
846 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2005

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-251100-
BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON-
ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS-
LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON-
LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE-
TANEY-OZARK-OREGON-
846 PM CDT WED AUG 24 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI
OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL INTERACT WITH INCREASING MOISTURE TO
BRING AN INCREASED CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT.
THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT WILL BE ACROSS SOUTHEAST
KANSAS INTO WEST CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI.  TORRENTIAL RAINFALL
WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...POSSIBLY LEADING TO FLASH
FLOODING.  IN ADDITION TO THE POTENTIAL FLOODING HAZARD...SOME OF
THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

ONGOING THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR
THURSDAY MORNING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE
POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE DEPENDING
ON THE AVAILABLE INSTABILITY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT BECAUSE OF THE
RELATIVELY ISOLATED NATURE OF THE SEVERE WEATHER HAZARDS.
HOWEVER...SPOTTERS ARE URGED TO REPORT RAINFALL TOTALS AND FLOODING
TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH
OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE)

LINDENBERG/DSA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	44 min
Aug 25, 2:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	6 hr
Aug 25, 5:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	St. Clair	6 hr
Aug 25, 5:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Miller	6 hr
Aug 25, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	40 min
Aug 24, 10:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon	6 hr
Aug 24, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	75 min
Aug 24, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	68 min
Aug 25, 4:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon	6 hr

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.