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Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Springfield, MO

February 29, 20125 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this fire weather watch at Feb 29, 2012, 3:43 PM CST for 5 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 1, 2012, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 29, 2012, 3:43 PM CST (21:43 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 1, 2012, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Mar 1, 2012, 3:34 AM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2181 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 98 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 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 fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Feb 29, 3:31 PM CST, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 29, 3:31 PM CST, 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 29, 1:33 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 29, 9:55 AM CST, 5 hours 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 29, 10:00 AM CST, 5 hours 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 29, 10:07 AM CST, 5 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 29, 10:13 AM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 29, 12:44 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 29, 2:34 PM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 28, 10:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	54 min
Feb 28, 10:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton	27 min
Feb 28, 10:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, Vernon	31 min
Feb 28, 11:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade	38 min
Feb 28, 11:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Vernon	27 min
Feb 28, 11:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dade, Greene, Polk	31 min
Feb 28, 11:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	42 min
Feb 28, 11:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair	46 min
Feb 28, 11:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede, Polk, Webster	51 min
Feb 28, 11:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	32 min
Feb 29, 12:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	25 min
Feb 29, 12:19 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald	56 min
Feb 29, 12:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	24 min
Feb 29, 12:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Laclede, Phelps, Pulaski	44 min
Feb 29, 12:33 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Camden, Maries, Miller	27 min
Feb 29, 12:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone	40 min
Feb 29, 12:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	47 min
Feb 29, 12:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Texas, Wright	67 min
Feb 29, 12:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Stone, Taney	47 min
Feb 29, 1:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	58 min
Feb 29, 1:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dent, Phelps	39 min
Feb 29, 1:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas, Wright	65 min
Feb 29, 1:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Shannon, Texas	57 min
Feb 29, 1:36 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Ozark	54 min
Feb 29, 1:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	32 min
Feb 29, 1:51 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Douglas	39 min
Feb 29, 2:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell	39 min
Feb 29, 2:24 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Oregon, Shannon	43 min
Feb 29, 2:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon, Ozark	64 min
Feb 29, 3:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	17 min
Feb 29, 3:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	28 min
Feb 29, 4:33 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Newton, Vernon	13 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.