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Special Weather Statement, NWS Springfield, MO

July 13, 2012Bourbon County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2012, 1:27 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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 13, 2012, 1:27 PM CDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2012, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO

County Bourbon County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2012-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 168 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2012-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -50 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-40 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 13, 1:22 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 1:22 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 1:05 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
105 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2012

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-141815-
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-
105 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 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 THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE RISK.
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.
  LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK.
  ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER RISK.

DISCUSSION...

  AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED EARLY THIS AFTERNOON OVER
  EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS INTO WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ALONG A
  BOUNDARY. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT WEST CENTRAL
  MISSOURI AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS DURING THE AFTERNOON WITH CLOUD TO
  GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. MORE SCATTERED
  STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE MISSOURI
  OZARKS WITH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING THE MAIN THUNDERSTORM RISK.

  TEMPERATURES WILL WARM INTO THE LOW TO MID 90S AGAIN THIS
  AFTERNOON WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES FROM THE MID TO UPPER 90S IN
  SOME LOCATIONS. THOSE AREAS REMAINING DRY TODAY WILL ALSO REMAIN
  IN ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WITH HUMIDITY VALUES IN THE
  LOW TO MID 30S.

 .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

  ADDITIONAL ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
  POSSIBLE THIS WEEKEND ACROSS THE MISSOURI OZARKS. A FEW OF THESE
  STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH...AS WELL AS
  FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES.

  THERE IS THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY
  NEXT WEEK ACROSS PRIMARILY THE EASTERN MISSOURI OZARKS.

  AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES IN THE MIDDLE 90S TO AROUND 100
  DEGREES ARE EXPECTED INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...WITH THE
  HIGHEST VALUES EXTENDING FROM SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS INTO WEST
  CENTRAL AND CENTRAL MISSOURI.

  LIMITED TO ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ON AN
  AFTERNOON BASIS INTO AT LEAST EARLY NEXT WEEK.

.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)

LINDENBERG

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 12:35 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1235 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2012

KSZ073-097-MOZ066-131815-
BOURBON KS-CRAWFORD KS-VERNON MO-
1235 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BOURBON...NORTHERN CRAWFORD AND
WESTERN VERNON COUNTIES UNTIL 115 PM CDT...

AT 1232 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PETERSBURG...OR 15 MILES WEST OF FORT
SCOTT. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE
LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT SCOTT TRACK SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 5
MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3788 9508 3804 9509 3805 9508 3805 9504
      3804 9504 3804 9463 3806 9462 3806 9445
      3767 9446 3760 9509 3781 9510
TIME...MOT...LOC 1733Z 289DEG 2KT 3781 9499

DSA
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 1:27 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
127 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2012

KSZ073-131915-
BOURBON KS-
127 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BOURBON COUNTY UNTIL 215 PM
CDT...

AT 125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MARMATON...OR 8 MILES WEST OF FORT SCOTT...
MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE BRONSON...DEVON...FORT SCOTT...FULTON...
GARLAND...HAMMOND...HIATTVILLE...MARMATON...PAWNEE STATION...
PETERSBURG...PORTERVILLE...REDFIELD AND UNIONTOWN.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3791 9507 3805 9464 3804 9462 3792 9461
      3768 9462 3767 9485 3768 9488 3767 9509
TIME...MOT...LOC 1827Z 348DEG 3KT 3781 9485

DSA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 2:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFJasper47 min
Jul 13, 2:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFCedar25 min
Jul 13, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLaclede, Texas, Wright47 min
Jul 13, 6:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFChristian28 min
Jul 13, 6:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFPhelps52 min
Jul 13, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFPhelps46 min
Jul 13, 12:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFBourbon40 min

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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.