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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2014, 7:02 PM CDT for Barton County, Vernon County, Missouri; Bourbon County, Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 6, 2014, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2014, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 6, 6:59 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 6:59 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 3:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 311 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2014 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-072015- 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- 311 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2014 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 HAIL RISK. ELEVATED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED EXCESSIVE HEAT RISK. DISCUSSION... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE MISSOURI OZARKS INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES. A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVERNIGHT PUSH INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND CENTRAL MISSOURI OVERNIGHT BRINGING HEAVY RAIN TO THE AREA. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL CLIMB INTO THE MID TO UPPER 90S. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ONGOING THURSDAY MORNING ACROSS THE AREA AND SPREADING SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL THEN BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL. WIDESPREAD ONE TO THREE INCHES AND ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS UP TO 4 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE... WITH THE HIGHER AMOUNTS EXPECTED OVER THE EASTERN OZARKS AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE WEEKEND BUT AN ISOLATED STRONG STORM OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES. AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES IN THE MIDDLE 90S ARE EXPECTED AT TIMES THIS WEEK ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS. .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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 3:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Vernon | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 6 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Howell | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Missouri, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014
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.