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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Springfield, MO

May 20, 20104 counties in Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2010, 6:55 PM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 30 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 20, 2010, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 2010, 7:25 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Camden County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Polk County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2010-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2010-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 20, 3:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 20, 3:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 20, 2:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 20, 6:46 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
646 PM CDT THU MAY 20 2010

MOZ079-080-210015-
POLK MO-DALLAS MO-
646 PM CDT THU MAY 20 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR CENTRAL DALLAS AND EAST CENTRAL POLK
COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM CDT...

AT 640 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF BOLIVAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH. HALF INCH SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

WISE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 7:47 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningSGFBarton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Vernon39 hr
May 19, 9:38 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningSGFCedar60 hr
May 20, 12:32 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningSGFBarry, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 26 more36 hr
May 20, 12:57 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSGFVernon32 hr
May 20, 3:26 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSGFVernon4 days
May 20, 8:28 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSGFJasper18 hr
May 20, 9:47 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSGFPulaski54 hr
May 20, 8:28 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSGFCherokee8 hr

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.