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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this winter storm watch at Feb 24, 2013, 1:38 PM CST for 9 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Feb 25, 2013, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2013, 1:38 PM CST (19:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2013, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2013, 3:27 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 1223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 24, 11:04 AM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 11:04 AM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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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.