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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 356, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2008, 2:29 PM CDT for Shannon County, Missouri. It was in force for 30 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
- Jun 13, 2008, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2008, 2:59 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Shannon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 1736 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
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 Jun 13, 1:51 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:51 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
151 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008
.DISCUSSION...
STORMS CONTINUE TO TRAIN ALONG AND NORTH OF A STALLED OUTFLOW
BOUNDARY OVER SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA THIS
AFTERNOON...AS THEY DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHEAST
KANSAS IN AN AREA OF MAXIMIZED LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE. PRECIPITABLE
WATER VALUES OFF THE 12Z KSGF SOUNDING WERE AROUND ONE AND THREE
QUARTERS OF AN INCH...SO ALL STORMS HAVE BEEN HEAVY RAINFALL
PRODUCES. SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON...THE SPRINGFIELD ASOS HAS
RECORDED NEARLY THREE AND A HALF INCHES WITH MORE STORMS ON THE
WAY AS THERMAL BOUNDARY REMAINS PARKED NEAR THE ARKANSAS BORDER
AND THE AIRMASS SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO DESTABILIZE
WITH AFTERNOON HEATING. BASED ON LATEST RADAR TRENDS...WILL BE
EXPANDING THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH INTO OUR SOUTHEAST COUNTIES...ENDING
THE WATCH OVER OUR EXTREME NORTHWEST COUNTIES AND EXTENDING THE
WATCH INTO THE EVENING OVER THE REST OF THE AREA.
WILL HAVE THE MAIN DISCUSSION OUT BY AROUND 3 PM.
TERRY
&&
.AVIATION...
FOR THE 18Z TAFS...TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT
THE SPRINGFIELD TERMINAL THROUGH MUCH OF THE AFTERNOON. IFR
VISIBILITIES ARE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON AT
BOTH AIRFIELDS. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THIS EVENING THAT SOUTHWEST
MISSOURI WILL CLEAR OUT AND PATCHY DENSE FOG COULD DEVELOP AT JOPLIN
AND SPRINGFIELD. WANTED TO GIVE A HEADS UP IN THE TAFS FOR THIS.
LATER SHIFTS WILL NEED TO FINE TUNE MORE AS THE EVENT GETS
CLOSER.
GCC
&&
.SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
MO...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 1 AM CDT SATURDAY FOR MOZ057-058-068>071-
078>083-088>098-101>106.
KS...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 1 AM CDT SATURDAY FOR KSZ101.
&&Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 1:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 104 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-141815- 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- 104 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND PARTS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS TODAY. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL LEADING TO SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED. ANYONE LIVING IN LOW LYING AREAS THAT TYPICALLY EXPERIENCE FLOODING SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THOSE STREAMS...AND REACT QUICKLY IF FLASH FLOODING BECOMES A POTENTIAL HAZARD. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY EXIT THE REGION SOMETIME DURING THE EVENING HOURS AS A COLD FRONT SHIFTS SOUTH INTO ARKANSAS. AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS...SKIES WILL CLEAR AND WINDS WILL BECOME LIGHT. WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE ON THE GROUND...CONDITIONS WILL BECOME FAVORABLE FOR FOG DEVELOPMENT OVERNIGHT. FOG REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN A MILE CAN BE EXPECTED GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 44 CORRIDOR AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE BEGINNING LATE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE LATEST FORECAST ANALYSIS SUGGESTS THAT THE REGION WILL BE POSITIONED UNDER A WEATHER PATTERN THAT IS FAVORABLE FOR OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES. THIS COULD LEAD TO ADDITIONAL FLOODING...ALONG WITH RESULTING IN ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && 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) CLAYCOMB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:17 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
217 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0216 PM FLASH FLOOD WENTWORTH 36.99N 94.07W
06/13/2008 NEWTON MO EMERGENCY MNGR
CREEK IN WENTWORTH IS OUT OF ITS BANKS.
&&
BARJENBRUCHLocal storm report, Jun 13, 2:19 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
219 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1115 AM FLASH FLOOD SPRINGFIELD 37.20N 93.29W
06/13/2008 GREENE MO NEWSPAPER
FASSNIGHT CREEK OUT OF ITS BANKS AT 300 BLOCK OF WEST
BENNETT ST THREATENING NEARBY HOUSES
&&
ANGLELocal storm report, Jun 13, 2:21 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
221 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1230 PM FLASH FLOOD SPRINGFIELD 37.20N 93.29W
06/13/2008 GREENE MO NEWSPAPER
VAN STALLED WHILE ATTEMPING TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAY AT
WEST CATALPA STREET NEAR DOUGLAS AVENUE
&&
ANGLELocal storm report, Jun 13, 2:23 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
223 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0800 AM HEAVY RAIN HIATTVILLE 37.72N 94.87W
06/13/2008 M2.40 INCH BOURBON KS EMERGENCY MNGR
24 HOUR RAINFALL ENDING AT 8 AM
&&
BARJENBRUCHLocal storm report, Jun 13, 2:25 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, St. Clair, Vernon | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Morgan | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Hickory and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Lawrence, Newton | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Barry, Christian, Greene, McDonald, Stone | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:36 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Laclede, Maries, Phelps, Pulaski, Webster, Wright | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Newton | 9 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, St. Clair, Vernon | 24 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar | 58 hr |
| Jun 13, 10:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene | 8 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Barton, Camden, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Hickory and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 12:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dallas, Laclede, Pulaski, Webster, Wright | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 12:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dade, Jasper, Polk | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Dent, Douglas, Phelps, Stone and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:37 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper | 53 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 5:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Dade, Dallas, Greene, Jasper, Laclede, Lawrence and 5 more | 18 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 8 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Crawford | 7 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 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.