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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Springfield, MO

July 4, 2013Camden County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2013, 5:39 PM CDT for Camden County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 2013, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2013, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Camden County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 87 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 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 severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 4, 2:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 2:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
330 PM CDT THU JUL 4 2013

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-052030-
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-
330 PM CDT THU JUL 4 2013

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 HAIL RISK.
  LIMITED THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE RISK.
  LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK.

DISCUSSION...

  THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER
  EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND THE MISSOURI OZARKS. THERE IS
  LIMITED RISK FOR THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH AND HAIL
  UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

  WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE POSSIBLE
  FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF
  CENTRAL MISSOURI AND THE EASTERN OZARKS EAST OF THE HIGHWAY 65
  CORRIDOR.

  THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON...AS
  THE OZARKS AIRMASS BECOMES VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE.

  HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RANGE FROM THE MID 90S TO AROUND 100
  DEGREES AREA WIDE 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)

CRAMER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	53 min
Jul 4, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Christian	32 min
Jul 4, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Greene	29 min
Jul 4, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.