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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this freeze warning at Apr 14, 2008, 4:20 AM CDT for 12 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Apr 14, 2008, 9:00 PM CDT. 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
- Apr 14, 2008, 4:20 AM CDT (09:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 14, 2008, 9:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2008, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Maries County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 14, 2:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 2:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 11:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Ozark | 24 hr |
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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.