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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 524, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2008, 8:01 PM CDT for Benton County, Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 46 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
- Aug 28, 2008, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2008, 8:47 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Benton County, MO, Morgan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 3067 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 28, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 6:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 28, 7:12 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 712 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2008 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-300015- 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- 712 PM CDT THU AUG 28 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT HAS TAKEN PLACE ALONG A COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INTO NORTHEASTERN MISSOURI. AS THE FRONT DRIFTS SOUTH OVERNIGHT... SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS... WITH ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WILL PUSH INTO AREAS MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 60 THROUGH DAYBREAK. ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. THUNDERSTORM SEVERITY SHOULD GRADUALLY DECREASE AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE ONGOING FRIDAY AS THE FRONT CONTINUES TO PUSH SOUTH THROUGH THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING NORTH OF AN OSCEOLA TO OSAGE BEACH LINE...AND THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 60. && 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) BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 27 min |
| Aug 28, 10:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Phelps | 6 hr |
| Aug 28, 11:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Pulaski, Shannon, Texas | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Pulaski, Shannon, Texas | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 5:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair, Vernon | 35 min |
| Aug 29, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 8:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Dent, Laclede, Phelps, Pulaski, Shannon, Texas and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald, Newton | 6 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.