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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Springfield, MO

October 17, 2007Christian County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 17, 2007, 10:12 PM CDT for Christian County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 17, 2007, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
Expired: Oct 17, 2007, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Christian County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 17, 10:37 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Clever, MO	ALSO REPORTED POWER LINES DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 14 JUST SOUTHWEST OF BILLINGS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 25 minutes after it went out.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 17, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 33 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: 1262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 618 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 266 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.4
Supercell composite: 8.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KSGF 180312
SVRSGF
MOC043-180345-
/O.NEW.KSGF.SV.W.0229.071018T0312Z-071018T0345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1012 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT.

* AT 1008 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BILLINGS...OR NEAR
  AURORA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BILLINGS AND CLEVER BY 1025 PM CDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...IF
YOU ARE IN ITS PATH SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3709 9362 3711 9360 3710 9358 3710 9334
      3709 9333 3708 9333 3699 9345 3700 9362
TIME...MOT...LOC 0312Z 236DEG 49KT 3698 9371

$$

CRAMER

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 Oct 17, 8:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 17, 8:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
840 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007

...MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE DISCUSSION...

.UPDATE...

THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES ACROSS THE CWA THIS
EVENING...AND WILL SPREAD INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AS A SECOND
WAVE OF SEVERE STORMS APPROACHES THE AREA.

THE MAIN UPPER LEVEL WAVE IS CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER CENTRAL KANSAS
EXTENDING SOUTH INTO NORTHERN TEXAS. A STRONG 100 KT UPPER LEVEL
JET IS RIDING UNDER THE WAVE. THIS IS ALLOWING A VERY STRONGLY
SHEARED ENVIRONMENT ACROSS THE REGION. 0-6 KM BULK SHEAR VALUES OF
50 TO 70 KTS ARE PRESENT. CONVECTION CONTINUES TO DEVELOP AND MOVE
EAST OVER EASTERN KANSAS AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA AHEAD OF THIS UPPER
LEVEL ENERGY AND AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING DRY LINE. A SECOND ROUND
OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA...GIVEN THE
STRONGLY SHEARED ENVIRONMENT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS
WITH ANY LINE SEGMENTS THAT FORM. WITH THE STRONG SHEAR
PRESENT...ROTATING SUPERCELLS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...WITH LARGE
HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES POSSIBLE.

THE DRY LINE AND UPPER LEVEL ENERGY WILL PUSH FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS
THE CWA INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...AND WILL EXIT THE CWA BY DAY
BREAK. AS THIS STRONG STORM SYSTEM MARCHES THROUGH...ALL MODES OF
SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE.

WISE

&&

.DISCUSSION...
/ISSUED 712 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007/

SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS A GOOD BET LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND DURING
THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...MAINLY BEFORE 3 AM. THERMODYNAMICS REMAIN
VARIABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WITH INDICES ACTUALLY INCREASING DURING
THE EVENING HOURS. AFTER TONIGHT...MUCH CALMER WEATHER WILL
DEVELOP...HOWEVER GUSTY SURFACE WINDS WILL LIKELY INCREASE FROM
THE WEST AND NORTHWEST ON THURSDAY AS THE STORM SYSTEM MOVES
NORTHEAST OF THE REGION. TEMPERATURES WILL LIKELY RISE ACROSS
WESTERN MISSOURI AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS BEFORE NOON THURSDAY...THEN
REMAIN STREADY OR SLOWLY FALL AS CLOUD COVER AND STRONG COLD AIR
ADVECTION BEGINS TO SPREAD ACROSS THE OZARKS. THE EASTERN OZARKS
WILL LIKELY RISE INTO THE 70S WITH A FEW 80S POSSIBLE IN SOUTH
CENTRAL MISSOURI WHERE A POCKET OF WARMER AIR WILL RESIDE THROUGH
THE DAY.

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WILL BE A TRANSITION FROM COOLER AIR TO MUCH
WARMER AIR AS A RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD ACROSS THE CENTRAL U.S.
92/85H WILL LIKELY RISE INTO THE TEENS WHICH WILL PROVIDE SURFACE
TEMPERATURES IN THE 70S AND LOWER 80S. SUNDAY MAY GET ANOTHER VERY
WARM DAY BUT THIS DEPENDS UPON THE AMOUNT OF CLOUD COVER AND
TIMING OF THE COLD FRONT.

PREVIOUS EXTENDED FORECAST MODELS HAVE NOT BEEN CONSISTENT IN THE
MID/LONG TERM RANGE WHICH REMAINS A PROBLEM WITH TIMING AND THE
OVERALL EXTENT OF THE COLD AIR ADVECTING SOUTHWARD EARLY NEXT
WEEK. ALTHOUGH THE GFS ENSEMBLES REMAIN THE FAVORITE WITH THE MEAN
UPPER AIR FLOW...DIFFERENCES ARISE IN SURFACE
CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY THE TIMING OF THE COLD FRONT WHICH MAY
WAIT UNTIL SUNDAY EVENING. HAVE CONTINUED TO LEAN TOWARD HPC
GUIDANCE...BUT HAVE SEVERAL CONCERNS WITH THE AMOUNT OF RAINFALL
AND HOW LONG IT WILL REMAIN WITH THIS TYPE OF PATTERN.
ANYWAY...CONFIDENCE AFTER SUNDAY REMAINS VERY LOW WITH ANY ONE
SOLUTION.

JLT

&&

.AVIATION...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ONGOING ACROSS THE AREA AT THIS TIME WITH
A SECOND LINE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE AREA FROM 01-09Z. CEILINGS
WILL VARY FROM VFR TO MVFR WITH IFR CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES IN
AND NEAR THE THUNDERSTORMS. COULD ALSO BE SOME RESIDUAL FOG
PRESENT UNTIL AFTER SUNRISE. VFR CONDITIONS WILL THEN PREVAIL
THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD.

GAEDE

&&

.SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...NONE.
KS...NONE.
&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 17, 8:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
805 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-190115-
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-
805 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

  WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED:

  POSSIBILITY EXISTS FOR STRONG AND LONG TRACKED TORNADOES...
  DAMAGING WINDS TO 70 MPH...AND LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF
  GOLFBALLS.

  AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING:

  ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND
  WEST OF HIGHWAY 65 THROUGH THIS EVENING...AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE
  OUTLOOK AREA FROM LATE EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.

  DISCUSSION:

  A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH ACROSS THE PLAINS
  THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. CONVECTION CONTINUES
  ACROSS EASTERN KANSAS AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA. THE PRESENCE OF DEEP
  LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND STRONG WINDS IN THE LOWER LEVELS...WILL
  CONTINUE TO ALLOW FOR ROTATING SUPERCELLS ACROSS THE AREA.
  STRONG LINE SEGMENTS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...WITH DAMAGING
  STRAIGHT LINE WINDS POSSIBLE. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL WAVE AND
  ASSOCIATED JET STREAM IS PUSHING ACROSS CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AND
  WILL PUSH OVER TO THE NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT. AS THIS SYSTEM
  APPROACHES THE AREA THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT
  HOURS...ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXIST ACROSS THE
  AREA. DISCRETE ROTATING SUPERCELLS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND
  DAMAGING WINDS. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF
  PRODUCING STRONG AND LONG TRACK TORNADOES.

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

 ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL DEVELOP IN THE PLAINS ON SUNDAY
 BRINGING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA LATE SUNDAY AND
 SUNDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

 SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST
 KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI THIS EVENING AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA
 LATE THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. &&

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)

WISE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 17, 9:34 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
934 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007

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

0915 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PINEVILLE               36.59N 94.38W
10/17/2007                   MCDONALD           MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN PINEVILLE...AND ON H HIGHWAY
            BETWEEN PINEVILLE AND NOEL.

&&

BARJENBRUCH

Local storm report, Oct 17, 9:37 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
937 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007

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

0915 PM     TSTM WND DMG     JOPLIN                  37.08N 94.51W
10/17/2007                   JASPER             MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POWER LINES AND TREES DOWN ACROSS THE CITY OF JOPLIN.

&&

BARJENBRUCH

Local storm report, Oct 17, 9:39 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
939 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007

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

0905 PM     TSTM WND DMG     LIBERAL                 37.56N 94.52W
10/17/2007                   BARTON             MO   EMERGENCY MNGR

            NUMEROUS TREES DOWN... TOWN OF LIBERAL IS WITHOUT POWER.

&&

BARJENBRUCH

Local storm report, Oct 17, 9:42 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
942 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007

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

0937 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 W EL DORADO SPRINGS   37.88N 94.09W
10/17/2007                   VERNON             MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NUMEROUS TREES DOWN 2N HIGHWAY 54

&&

GCLAYCOM

Local storm report, Oct 17, 9:43 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
943 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007

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

0930 PM     TSTM WND GST     1 S CARTHAGE            37.16N 94.31W
10/17/2007  M72 MPH          JASPER             MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

BARJENBRUCH

Local storm report, Oct 17, 9:55 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
955 PM CDT WED OCT 17 2007

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

0900 PM     TSTM WND GST     LIBERAL                 37.56N 94.52W
10/17/2007  E60 MPH          BARTON             MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

BARJENBRUCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 17, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, McDonald, Newton	56 min
Oct 17, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, St. Clair, Vernon	56 min
Oct 17, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton	67 min
Oct 17, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	42 min
Oct 17, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair	63 min
Oct 17, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	70 min
Oct 17, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	54 min
Oct 17, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone, Taney	70 min
Oct 17, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Webster	55 min
Oct 17, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell	53 min
Oct 17, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Wright	43 min
Oct 17, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon, Texas	53 min
Oct 17, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski, Texas	55 min
Oct 17, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	76 min
Oct 18, 12:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Maries, Phelps	52 min
Oct 18, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark	57 min
Oct 18, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	51 min
Oct 18, 1:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	59 min
Oct 18, 1:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon	42 min
Oct 18, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	27 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.