Alert archive / Missouri / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this wind advisory at Jan 16, 2012, 3:48 AM CST for 11 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Jan 16, 2012, 4:00 AM CST. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 16, 2012, 3:48 AM CST (09:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 16, 2012, 4:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2012, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 469 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
850 WWUS73 KSGF 160948 NPWSGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 348 AM CST MON JAN 16 2012 ...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS THROUGH MID AFTERNOON... .STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP TODAY AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM TRACKS EAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH...WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS OVER 40 MPH...CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM TRACKS ACROSS NORTHERN MISSOURI AND INTO ILLINOIS. KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-077>079-088>090-093-094-101-102-162100- /O.NEW.KSGF.WI.Y.0001.120116T1000Z-120116T2100Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-JASPER-DADE- GREENE-NEWTON-LAWRENCE-MCDONALD-BARRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FORT SCOTT...PITTSBURG... BAXTER SPRINGS...COLUMBUS...NEVADA...LAMAR...EL DORADO SPRINGS... STOCKTON...BOLIVAR...JOPLIN...CARTHAGE...GREENFIELD... SPRINGFIELD...NEOSHO...AURORA...MOUNT VERNON...ANDERSON... PINEVILLE...MONETT...CASSVILLE 348 AM CST MON JAN 16 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * SHORT TERM TRENDS...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL SLOWLY INCREASE THIS MORNING ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. * TIMING AND AREAS AFFECTED...AREAS OF EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF AN OSCEOLA TO BOLIVAR TO CASSVILLE LINE UNTIL 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SUSTAINED SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 30 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS OVER 40 ARE EXPECTED. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED LATER THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH OR GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ SCHAUMANN/HATCH
1 follow-up statement
834 WWUS73 KSGF 162100 NPWSGF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 300 PM CST MON JAN 16 2012 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-077>079-088>090-093-094-101-102-162200- /O.EXP.KSGF.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-120116T2100Z/ BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-VERNON-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-JASPER-DADE- GREENE-NEWTON-LAWRENCE-MCDONALD-BARRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FORT SCOTT...PITTSBURG... BAXTER SPRINGS...COLUMBUS...NEVADA...LAMAR...EL DORADO SPRINGS... STOCKTON...BOLIVAR...JOPLIN...CARTHAGE...GREENFIELD... SPRINGFIELD...NEOSHO...AURORA...MOUNT VERNON...ANDERSON... PINEVILLE...MONETT...CASSVILLE 300 PM CST MON JAN 16 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WIND GUSTS OF AROUND 35 MPH WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE ADVISORY AREA THROUGH 5 PM...BUT IN GENERAL WINDS HAVE REMAINED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH FURTHER EARLY THIS EVENING...BUT WIND GUSTS OF AROUND 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT THROUGH MIDNIGHT. $$ DSA
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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.