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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this winter storm watch at Mar 26, 2009, 11:48 AM CDT for 22 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 28, 2009, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2009, 11:48 AM CDT (16:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2009, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2009, 3:24 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
All 25 counties
Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:54 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 nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Mar 26, 6:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 6:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
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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.