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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 387, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2008, 3:22 PM CDT for Christian County, Stone County, Taney County, Missouri. It was in force for 53 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 19, 2008, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2008, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Christian County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 756 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
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 19, 12:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 12:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1242 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 ...UPDATE TO AVIATION... .DISCUSSION... MAIN FOCUS WITH THIS FORECAST PACKAGE WILL BE WITH PRECIPITATION CHANCES AS WE REMAIN IN NORTHWEST FLOW DURING THE SHORT TERM PERIOD. MAIN MCS ACTIVITY THIS MORNING WAS CENTERED FURTHER WEST THAN LAST NIGHT AND WAS AFFECTING WESTERN KANSAS/OKLAHOMA INTO NORTHWEST TEXAS. A SECONDARY AREA OF CONVECTION WAS PUSHING SOUTHEAST ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA. SHORT RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE WITH TIMING OF SHORTWAVE ENERGY AND PRECIPITATION CHANCES ACROSS THE AREA. IT APPEARS AS IF MOST OF THE CONVECTION WILL REMAIN WEST OF THE AREA TODAY...ESPECIALLY THIS MORNING BEFORE INCREASED CHANCES DURING THE AFTERNOON. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE WILL TAKE AIM AT THE AREA TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING WHICH WILL LIKELY PROVIDE THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR PRECIPITATION OVER THE CWA. HAVE GENERALLY UNDERCUT THE HIGH MOS POPS FROM TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY TIME PERIOD DUE TO CONTINUED UNCERTAINTY IN THE MODEL PERFORMANCE. BEST COVERAGE WILL STILL LIKELY REMAIN TO THE WEST OF THE CWA SO WILL HAVE MY HIGHEST POPS IN THE WESTERN CWA. MAIN SHORTWAVE SHOULD PUSH SOUTH OF THE AREA ON FRIDAY WITH RIDGE BUILDING FURTHER EAST HEADING INTO THE WEEKEND. FLY IN OINTMENT MAY BE WITH SHORTWAVE ENERGY THE GFS ID BRINGING INTO EASTERN MISSOURI ON SUNDAY. HAVE LEFT DRY FOR NOW BUT WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED. SHOULD SEE A WARMING TREND OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE REGION WITH TEMPERATURES HEADING TO MORE NORMAL READINGS FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. LINDENBERG && .AVIATION... FOR THE 18Z TAF PACKAGE...THE AREA HAS DESTABALIZED EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH LITTLE OR NO CAP IN PLACE. THIS HAS CAUSED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP INVOF SGF...AND A FEW ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP IN THE JLN AREA AS WELL. THIS WILL LIKELY PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS BEFORE EVENTUALLY DYING OFF. A CONVECTIVE COMPLEX WILL LIKELY INITIATE OVER NEBRASKA AND KANSAS...AND MOVE SOUTH SOUTHEAST OVERNIGHT. THIS WILL LIKELY IMPACT BOTH SGF AND JLN WITH THUNDERSTORMS...AS WELL AS LOWERED CEILINGS WITH THE STORMS...AND POTENTIALLY IN THE WAKE OF THE ACTIVITY AS WELL. AT THIS TIME...IT LOOKS TO CLEAR OUT BY AT LEAST 15Z. BARJENBRUCH && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 2:30 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 230 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-201930- 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- 230 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG AND JUST EAST OF HIGHWAY 65 THIS AFTERNOON. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...AND SHOULD REMAIN ALONG THE HIGHWAY 65 CORRIDOR. THIS EVENING...A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA...GENERALLY WEST OF AN OSAGE BEACH TO WEST PLAINS LINE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE OF STORMS ALSO. DISCUSSION: AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS AFTERNOON. WITHIN THIS INSTABILITY...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG A BOUNDARY ROUGHLY ALONG HIGHWAY 65. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INTO SOUTHWESTERN IOWA. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE THREAT...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY AS A FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE MIDDLE HALF OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ALONG AND WEST OF AN OSAGE BEACH TO WEST PLAINS LINE THROUGH THIS EVENING. && 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
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
306 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2008
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0257 PM HAIL 1 SE PLEASANT HOPE 37.45N 93.26W
06/19/2008 E1.75 INCH POLK MO AMATEUR RADIO
&&
KARDELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Hickory | 40 min |
| Jun 19, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 53 min |
| Jun 19, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Greene, Polk, Webster | 44 min |
| Jun 19, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Greene, Webster | 39 min |
| Jun 19, 3:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dallas, Greene, Hickory, Polk, Webster | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Webster | 66 min |
| Jun 19, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 4:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Taney | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian | 21 min |
| Jun 19, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.