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Special Weather Statement, NWS Springfield, MO

April 3, 2014Morgan County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2014, 8:34 AM CDT for Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 26 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: Apr 3, 2014, 8:34 AM CDT (13:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2014, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

County Morgan County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 1727 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 417 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 423 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.5
Supercell composite: 15.3

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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 Apr 3, 6:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 6:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 7:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 3, 8:03 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 8:34 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 4:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Benton, Morgan, St. Clair	6 hr
Apr 3, 4:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Miller, Morgan	5 hr
Apr 3, 9:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry, Stone	28 min
Apr 3, 9:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Miller, Morgan	8 hr
Apr 3, 9:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Stone, Taney	50 min
Apr 3, 10:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Christian	33 min
Apr 3, 10:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Stone	32 min
Apr 3, 10:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Taney	28 min
Apr 3, 10:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark, Stone, Taney	51 min
Apr 3, 10:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Polk	35 min
Apr 3, 10:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Webster, Wright	50 min
Apr 3, 11:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cedar	32 min
Apr 3, 11:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Polk	48 min
Apr 3, 11:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar	52 min
Apr 3, 11:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Texas	50 min
Apr 3, 11:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede	43 min
Apr 3, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Texas, Wright	40 min
Apr 3, 12:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Hickory, Polk	37 min
Apr 3, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Polk	43 min
Apr 3, 12:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Shannon, Texas	43 min
Apr 3, 12:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	40 min
Apr 3, 12:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade	50 min
Apr 3, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede, Maries, Miller, Phelps, Pulaski	44 min
Apr 3, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Miller	52 min
Apr 3, 1:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Polk	52 min
Apr 3, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	50 min
Apr 3, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Hickory	39 min
Apr 3, 1:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dallas, Hickory, Polk	24 min
Apr 3, 1:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski	6 hr
Apr 3, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller, Morgan	44 min
Apr 3, 1:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Hickory	28 min
Apr 3, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	41 min
Apr 3, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	47 min
Apr 3, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, St. Clair	45 min
Apr 3, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon	47 min
Apr 3, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	31 min
Apr 3, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barton	33 min
Apr 3, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	47 min
Apr 3, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Vernon	42 min
Apr 3, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Cedar, Hickory, St. Clair, Vernon	56 min
Apr 3, 4:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Miller, Morgan	6 hr
Apr 3, 4:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory	35 min
Apr 3, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Miller, Morgan	28 min
Apr 3, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	44 min
Apr 3, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller, Morgan	30 min
Apr 3, 5:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	St. Clair	4 hr
Apr 3, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	48 min
Apr 3, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries, Miller	45 min
Apr 3, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald, Stone	44 min
Apr 3, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	43 min
Apr 3, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	50 min
Apr 3, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	48 min
Apr 3, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Maries	28 min
Apr 3, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Webster	25 min
Apr 3, 6:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Laclede	38 min
Apr 3, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	45 min
Apr 3, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Webster	29 min
Apr 3, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cherokee	32 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.