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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2010, 3:36 AM CDT for Dent County, Phelps County, Missouri. It was in force for 54 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
- May 12, 2010, 3:36 AM CDT (08:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2010, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Dent County, MO, Phelps County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 2432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
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 May 12, 3:17 AM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 3:17 AM CDT, 19 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 758 PM CDT TUE MAY 11 2010 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-130100- 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- 758 PM CDT TUE MAY 11 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED RISK FOR TORNADOES. ELEVATED RISK FOR HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS. ELEVATED RISK FOR THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH. ELEVATED RISK FOR FLASH FLOODING. SIGNIFICANT RISK FOR LIGHTNING. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING... MAINLY AREAS NORTH OF A JOPLIN TO SPRINGFIELD TO SALEM LINE LATE THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. DISCUSSION... A THERMAL CAP HAS KEPT AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS FROM DEVELOPING ALONG A WARM FRONT. HOWEVER...WINDS IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE ARE EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN LATE THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THIS WILL AID IN THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...MAINLY NORTH OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. STORMS AROUND THE BOUNDARY MAY HAVE AN ISOLATED CHANCE OF BECOMING SURFACE BASED WITH A LOW TORNADO POTENTIAL. LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WILL BE THE MORE LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER RISKS ALONG AND NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT TONIGHT. IN ADDITION TO THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT...HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI WHICH MAY LEAD TO AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IF THUNDERSTORMS TRAIN OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. AN ELEVATED RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH A LIMITED RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER ON THURSDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE OZARKS. ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. WITH MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED DURING THE WEEK...THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING AND FLOODING POTENTIAL WILL INCREASE AS THE GROUND BECOMES SATURATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS EVENING ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN A LINE ROUGHLY FROM NEAR JOPLIN TO SPRINGFIELD TO SALEM. && 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) LINDENBERG
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 12, 12:09 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1209 AM CDT WED MAY 12 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1202 AM FLASH FLOOD NEVADA 37.84N 94.35W
05/12/2010 VERNON MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL CITY STREETS IN NEVADA ARE IMPASSABLE DUE TO
FLOODING.
1202 AM FLASH FLOOD 3 N NEVADA 37.88N 94.35W
05/12/2010 VERNON MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
HWY 71 3 MILES NORTH OF NEVADA HAS WATER COVERING THE
ROADWAY.
&&
CCROWELocal storm report, May 12, 12:33 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1233 AM CDT WED MAY 12 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1220 AM FLASH FLOOD 2 SSW WHEATLAND 37.91N 93.41W
05/12/2010 HICKORY MO LAW ENFORCEMENT
83 HWY BETWEEN 254 AND AA HAS WATER OVER THE ROAD.
NUMEROUS OTHER REPORTS OF FLOODED ROADWAYS IN HICKORY
COUNTY...ALONG HWY 190 AND IN LOW WATER AREAS ALONG HWY
54.
&&
CCROWESpecial weather statement, May 12, 12:44 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1244 AM CDT WED MAY 12 2010 MOZ056-057-069-120645- CAMDEN MO-MILLER MO-MORGAN MO- 1244 AM CDT WED MAY 12 2010 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR EASTERN CAMDEN...MILLER AND SOUTHERN MORGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 145 AM CDT... AT 1238 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAURIE TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF CAMDENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS POSE A VARIETY OF HAZARDS TO THOSE OUTDOORS...INCLUDING HAIL... STRONG WINDS THAT CAN CREATE DANGEROUS FLYING PROJECTILES AND DEBRIS...AS WELL AS DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...MOVE INDOORS TO A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. FOSTER
Local storm report, May 12, 2:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Polk | 61 min |
| May 11, 11:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 6 hr |
| May 11, 11:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair | 6 hr |
| May 12, 12:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller, Morgan | 6 hr |
| May 12, 12:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 6 hr |
| May 12, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Maries, Miller, Morgan, Pulaski | 62 min |
| May 12, 12:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton | 5 hr |
| May 12, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon | 51 min |
| May 12, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair | 66 min |
| May 12, 2:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 6 days |
| May 12, 2:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 6 days |
| May 12, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede | 64 min |
| May 12, 2:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden, Maries, Miller, Phelps, Pulaski | 4 hr |
| May 12, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede, Pulaski | 48 min |
| May 12, 3:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | SGF | Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Dade, Dallas and 14 more | 39 hr |
| May 12, 4:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 11 hr |
| May 12, 5:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Camden, Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Maries and 4 more | 10 hr |
| May 12, 5:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Miller, Morgan | 6 hr |
| May 12, 6:31 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar | 14 hr |
| May 12, 9:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 12 days |
| May 12, 11:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Miller, Morgan | 4 hr |
| May 12, 3:57 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 25 hr |
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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.