Alert archive / Missouri / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this wind advisory at Feb 14, 2008, 11:17 AM CST for 5 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Kansas. It took effect at Feb 14, 2008, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2008, 11:17 AM CST (17:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 14, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2008, 3:59 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Barry County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2031 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 678 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 730 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KSGF 141717 NPWSGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1117 AM CST THU FEB 14 2008 KSZ101-MOZ088-093-094-101-102-142300- /O.NEW.KSGF.WI.Y.0004.080214T1800Z-080214T2300Z/ CHEROKEE-JASPER-NEWTON-LAWRENCE-MCDONALD-BARRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BAXTER SPRINGS...COLUMBUS...JOPLIN... CARTHAGE...NEOSHO...AURORA...MOUNT VERNON...ANDERSON... PINEVILLE...MONETT...CASSVILLE 1117 AM CST THU FEB 14 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR WITH GUSTS 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR WILL OCCUR ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHWEST MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT THAT WILL AFFECT THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. THE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE WINDS SLOWLY DIMINISHING AS THE FRONT APPROACHES. BEHIND THE FRONT WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH AND WILL INCREASE AGAIN...BUT WILL REMAIN BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. THE STRONG WINDS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE TREE LIMBS TO FALL THAT WERE WEAKENED BY THE ICE STORM EARLIER THIS WEEK....WHICH COULD LEAD TO LOCAL POWER OUTAGES THIS AFTERNOON. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ WISE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KSGF 142159 NPWSGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 359 PM CST THU FEB 14 2008 KSZ101-MOZ088-093-094-101-102-142300- /O.CAN.KSGF.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-080214T2300Z/ CHEROKEE-JASPER-NEWTON-LAWRENCE-MCDONALD-BARRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BAXTER SPRINGS...COLUMBUS...JOPLIN... CARTHAGE...NEOSHO...AURORA...MOUNT VERNON...ANDERSON... PINEVILLE...MONETT...CASSVILLE 359 PM CST THU FEB 14 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE PRESSURE GRADIENT HAS RELAX SOME ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...WHICH HAS ALLOWED WINDS TO DECREASE BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BE CANCELLED. $$ WISE
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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.