Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 956
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Dec 27, 2008, 12:03 AM CST for 19 counties in Arkansas; 46 counties in Missouri; 10 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2008, 12:03 AM CST (06:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 27, 2008, 6:35 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 75 counties
Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Newton County, AR, Polk County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Audrain County, MO, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cole County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Lincoln County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pike County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Warren County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 12:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Shelby | 46 min |
| Dec 27, 1:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Marion, Monroe, Ralls, Shelby | 44 min |
| Dec 27, 2:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LSX | Marion, Monroe, Ralls | 47 min |
| Dec 27, 2:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Shelby | 6 hr |
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 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 452 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 585 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 9:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Garland, Johnson and 10 more | 85 min |
| Dec 27, 3:32 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 37 more | 88 min |
| Dec 27, 6:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 7:41 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lafayette, Miller | 6 hr |
| Dec 27, 8:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 61 more | 117 min |
| Dec 27, 9:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Fulton, Greene, Independence, Izard and 4 more | 56 min |
| Dec 27, 1:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot and 52 more | 25 min |
| Dec 27, 1:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Cross, Greene, Independence, Jackson and 10 more | 89 min |
| Dec 27, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crittenden | 4 hr |
| Dec 26, 11:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Knox and 6 more | 90 min |
| Dec 27, 1:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 4:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 27, 8:48 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Christian, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, Logan and 9 more | 27 min |
| Dec 27, 10:26 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass and 45 more | 94 min |
| Dec 27, 10:58 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 43 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 27, 11:46 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, DeKalb, DeWitt and 32 more | 89 min |
| Dec 27, 12:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 27, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 27, 1:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 29 more | 2 hr |
| Dec 27, 5:06 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 10 more | 84 min |
| Dec 26, 6:47 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Jackson and 5 more | 58 min |
| Dec 26, 9:51 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Chariton and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 9:41 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton and 12 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 27, 12:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 22 more | 83 min |
| Dec 27, 2:02 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 41 more | 7 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.