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Heavy Snow Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO

January 10, 2006Bourbon County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this heavy snow warning at Jan 10, 2006, 8:01 AM CST for Bourbon County, Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 10, 2006, 8:01 AM CST (14:01 UTC)
Expired
Jan 10, 2006, 7:15 PM CST
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO

Counties Bourbon County, KS, Crawford County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2006-01-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2006-01-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heavy snow 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 heavy snow warning went out at Jan 10, 4:50 AM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 4:50 AM CST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 10, 5:53 AM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 10, 3:59 AM CST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
359 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2006

MOZ102-101030-
BARRY-
359 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2006

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR CENTRAL BARRY COUNTY UNTIL 430 AM
CST...

AT 356 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF CASSVILLE...OR 18 MILES NORTHWEST
OF EUREKA SPRINGS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH.

COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF SMALL HAIL...UP TO A HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...IS
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. SLEET AND HAIL COULD ACCUMULATE ON
ROADWAYS MAKING TRAVEL DIFFICULT IN THE THUNDERSTORM.

IZZI
Local storm report, Jan 10, 4:05 AM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
405 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0400 AM     HAIL             CASSVILLE               36.68N 93.87W
01/10/2006  0.75 INCH        BARRY              MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

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Local storm report, Jan 10, 4:22 AM CST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
422 AM CST TUE JAN 10 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0420 AM     HAIL             MONETT                  36.92N 93.93W
01/10/2006  0.75 INCH        BARRY              MO   PUBLIC

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Local storm report, Jan 10, 7:40 AM CST, 21 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jan 10, 7:44 AM CST, 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 10, 3:29 AM CSTSnow AdvisorySGFBarton, Benton, Cedar, Dade, Hickory, Jasper and 3 more97 min
Jan 10, 3:29 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisorySGFBarton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Dade, Dallas and 11 more16 hr
Jan 10, 4:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLawrence37 min

Nearby

Heavy Snow Warnings in Kansas, 2006Every heavy snow warning in 2006

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.