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Special Weather Statement, NWS Springfield, MO

June 28, 2011Cherokee County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2011, 1:32 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 2011, 1:32 AM CDT (06:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2011, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

County Cherokee County, KS

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 89 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3014 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 8.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 28, 12:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 12:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 12:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 8:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 1:32 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
132 AM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011

KSZ097-101-MOZ077-088-280715-
CHEROKEE KS-CRAWFORD KS-BARTON MO-JASPER MO-
132 AM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN CHEROKEE...
NORTHWESTERN JASPER...SOUTHEASTERN CRAWFORD AND SOUTHWESTERN BARTON
COUNTIES UNTIL 215 AM CDT...

AT 128 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CHEROKEE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PITTSBURG BY 140 AM CDT.
  OPOLIS BY 155 AM CDT.
  ASBURY BY 200 AM CDT.
  NASHVILLE BY 215 AM CDT.

LAT...LON 3742 9448 3723 9449 3731 9483 3741 9483
TIME...MOT...LOC 0633Z 280DEG 18KT 3735 9475

GRIFFIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Shannon	24 min
Jun 28, 2:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barton	37 min
Jun 28, 2:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Greene, Webster	48 min
Jun 28, 2:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	50 min
Jun 28, 3:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Newton	26 min
Jun 28, 3:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dade	49 min
Jun 28, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence	50 min
Jun 28, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas	47 min
Jun 28, 3:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	42 min
Jun 28, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark	46 min
Jun 28, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Taney	41 min
Jun 28, 4:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	39 min
Jun 28, 4:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark	38 min
Jun 28, 4:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone, Taney	34 min
Jun 28, 4:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Ozark, Taney	44 min
Jun 28, 4:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Texas	50 min
Jun 28, 5:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Ozark	47 min
Jun 28, 5:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Oregon	36 min
Jun 28, 2:19 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Watch	SGF	Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 17 more	38 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Kansas, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.