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Special Weather Statement, NWS Springfield, MO

July 2, 2012Maries County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this special weather statement at Jul 2, 2012, 5:36 PM CDT for Maries County, Missouri. It was in force for 24 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: Jul 2, 2012, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2012, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

County Maries County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 861 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1324 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 2, 5:27 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 5:27 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 12:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1256 PM CDT MON JUL 2 2012

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-031800-
BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON-
ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS-
LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON-
LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE-
TANEY-OZARK-OREGON-
1256 PM CDT MON JUL 2 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI
OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED...

  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.
  LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK.
  ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER RISK.

DISCUSSION...

 ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS
 AFTERNOON. THERE IS NO ORGANIZED RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS TODAY.

 AIR TEMPERATURES AND HEAT INDICES WILL RETURN TO THE MID 90S TO
 UPPER 90S THIS AFTERNOON.

 DRY VEGETATION ALONG WITH ON GOING DROUGHT CONDITIONS AND LOW
 RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES THIS AFTERNOON WILL CAUSE AN ELEVATED
 FIRE DANGER.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

 THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY. SEVERE
 WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

 AIR TEMPERATURES AND HEAT INDICES WILL RETURN TO THE MID 90S TO
 AROUND 100 DEGREES FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

  SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.

&&

THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH
OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT
HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE)

GRIFFIN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 1:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
130 PM CDT MON JUL 2 2012

MOZ082-021900-
TEXAS MO-
130 PM CDT MON JUL 2 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTY UNTIL
200 PM CDT...

AT 128 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HAZELTON...OR 11 MILES NORTH OF HOUSTON...
MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE HAZELTON.

PEOPLE IN NORTHERN TEXAS COUNTY...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER
SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO
TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.

LAT...LON 3745 9191 3742 9205 3761 9215 3760 9194
      3760 9189 3759 9188
TIME...MOT...LOC 1830Z 174DEG 13KT 3750 9200

KARDELL

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:36 PM CDT, 0 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
Jul 2, 1:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Texas	30 min
Jul 2, 6:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Maries, Phelps	3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Missouri, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.