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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 2010, 11:42 PM CDT for Benton County, Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 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
- Oct 25, 2010, 11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2010, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
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 04:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 10:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 517 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 854 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 Oct 25, 9:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 9:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1031 PM CDT MON OCT 25 2010 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-270345- 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- 1031 PM CDT MON OCT 25 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER RISK LEVEL IS...SIGNIFICANT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... ELEVATED RISK FOR THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 60 MPH. LIMITED TORNADO RISK. LIMITED HAIL RISK. SIGNIFICANT LIGHTNING RISK. ELEVATED NON-THUNDERSTORM WIND RISK. DISCUSSION... A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL RAPIDLY DEVELOP FROM EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI...AND SWEEP RAPIDLY EAST ACROSS THE MISSOURI OZARKS OVERNIGHT. SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY AND VERY STRONG WIND SHEAR WILL RESULT IN STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 60 MPH WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARD. GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF WIND SHEAR...AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE QUARTERS MAY ALSO OCCUR IN THE STRONGER STORMS. SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 71 WITH AN INCREASING RISK EAST OF THE HIGHWAY 65 CORRIDOR. THE STORMS WILL REACH THE HIGHWAY 65 CORRIDOR AROUND 1 AM...AND HIGHWAY 63 BY 4 AM. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS UP TO 35 MPH WILL CONTINUE AHEAD OF THE FRONT. A BRIEF PERIOD OF STRONG AND GUSTY WESTERLY WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE BEHIND THE STORMS DUE TO THE PASSING COLD FRONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WESTERLY WINDS WILL RESULT IN AN ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER RISK TUESDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. SOME LOCALIZED AREAS MAY EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. FIRES IN THESE CONDITIONS CAN RAPIDLY ESCAPE CONTROL. ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED ON AN AFTERNOON BASIS THROUGH THIS WEEKEND. THERE WILL BE A RISK OF PATCHY FROST THURSDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE MISSOURI OZARKS. && 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) FOSTER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 25, 10:59 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 22 min |
| Oct 26, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 39 min |
| Oct 26, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald and 2 more | 55 min |
| Oct 26, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Cedar, Hickory, Morgan, Polk and 1 more | 53 min |
| Oct 26, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Dallas, Greene, Lawrence, Polk and 3 more | 58 min |
| Oct 26, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Miller and 2 more | 55 min |
| Oct 26, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Laclede, Maries, Miller, Phelps, Pulaski and 1 more | 58 min |
| Oct 26, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon and 1 more | 65 min |
| Oct 26, 3:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon, Shannon | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.