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Tornado Watch 188
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 10, 2008, 7:44 AM CDT for 8 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2008, 7:44 AM CDT (12:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2008, 10:02 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Texas County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:47 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 10%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 7:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Texas | 54 min |
| Apr 10, 8:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Texas | 31 min |
| Apr 10, 8:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Howell, Oregon, Shannon | 50 min |
| Apr 10, 8:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon, Shannon | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 28 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 3:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot | 60 min |
| Apr 10, 3:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Iron and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 6:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Christian, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Laclede, Maries and 9 more | 64 min |
| Apr 10, 9:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Madison and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 10, 9:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Madison and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 10:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot and 2 more | 84 min |
| Apr 10, 11:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cape Girardeau | 2 hr |
| Apr 10, 1:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 10, 2:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Barton, Bates, Benton, Buchanan, Caldwell and 21 more | 117 min |
| Apr 10, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Barton, Bates, Benton and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Clark, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 10, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mississippi | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 6:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Barton, Bates and 59 more | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.