Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2012, 4:28 PM CDT for Maries County, Phelps County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2012, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2012, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Maries County, MO, Phelps County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 4:59 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Doolittle, MO | PENNY SIZE HAIL WITH A FEW QUARTERS MIXED IN. |
| Mar 15, 5:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Jerome, MO | |
| Mar 15, 5:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Jerome, MO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 1947 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KSGF 152128
SVRSGF
MOC125-161-152215-
/O.NEW.KSGF.SV.W.0037.120315T2128Z-120315T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
428 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN PHELPS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI...
SOUTHEASTERN MARIES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT.
* AT 425 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR JEROME...OR 11 MILES WEST OF ROLLA...
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER
SIZE HAIL.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE DOOLITTLE...JEROME...NEWBURG...
NORTHWYE...ROLLA...ROSATI AND ST. JAMES.
INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 169 AND 199 WILL ALSO BE IMPACTED
BY THIS STORM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...IF YOU
ARE IN ITS PATH SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 3781 9202 3795 9202 3816 9161 3816 9155
3805 9151 3788 9152
TIME...MOT...LOC 2128Z 254DEG 32KT 3790 9193
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN
$$
KARDELL1 follow-up statement
785
WWUS53 KSGF 152205
SVSSGF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
505 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2012
MOC125-161-152215-
/O.CON.KSGF.SV.W.0037.000000T0000Z-120315T2215Z/
MARIES MO-PHELPS MO-
505 PM CDT THU MAR 15 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT
FOR NORTHERN PHELPS AND SOUTHEASTERN MARIES COUNTIES...
AT 503 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
DOOLITTLE...OR 4 MILES WEST OF ROLLA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE DOOLITTLE...JEROME...NEWBURG...NORTHWYE...
ROLLA...ROSATI AND ST. JAMES.
INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 169 AND 199 WILL ALSO BE IMPACTED
BY THIS STORM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
AT 5 PM...QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN DOOLITTLE.
&&
LAT...LON 3781 9202 3795 9202 3816 9161 3816 9155
3805 9151 3788 9152
TIME...MOT...LOC 2204Z 256DEG 23KT 3794 9184
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN
$$
KARDELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 1:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Douglas | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 3:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Maries | 22 min |
| Mar 15, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent | 46 min |
| Mar 15, 3:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Phelps | 36 min |
| Mar 15, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries, Miller | 17 min |
| Mar 15, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries, Phelps, Pulaski | 49 min |
| Mar 15, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 4:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Phelps | 6 hr |
| Mar 15, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 31 min |
| Mar 15, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps | 19 min |
| Mar 15, 5:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Phelps, Pulaski | 51 min |
| Mar 15, 5:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 5 hr |
| Mar 15, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps | 33 min |
| Mar 15, 6:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Shannon | 49 min |
| Mar 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps | 45 min |
| Mar 15, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Shannon, Texas | 39 min |
| Mar 15, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Shannon | 34 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.