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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Springfield, MO
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 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.
- 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
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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Local storm report, May 20, 2:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Vernon | 39 hr |
| May 19, 9:38 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar | 60 hr |
| May 20, 12:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 26 more | 36 hr |
| May 20, 12:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 32 hr |
| May 20, 3:26 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 4 days |
| May 20, 8:28 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper | 18 hr |
| May 20, 9:47 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 54 hr |
| May 20, 8:28 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 8 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.