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Special Weather Statement, NWS Springfield, MO

August 9, 2014Barry County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2014, 2:06 PM CDT for Barry County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 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: Aug 9, 2014, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2014, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

County Barry County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 36 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: 287 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 848 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Aug 9, 12:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 12:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 1:56 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 9, 11:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1149 AM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014

KSZ101-091730-
CHEROKEE KS-
1149 AM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY UNTIL 1230 PM
CDT...

AT 1147 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF
SHERMAN TO FAULKNER TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MELROSE...MOVING EAST AT
25 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE BAXTER SPRINGS...CARONA...COLUMBUS...
CRESTLINE...FAULKNER...GALENA...HALLOWELL...LAWTON...LOWELL...
MELROSE...NEUTRAL...RIVERTON...ROSELAND...SCAMMON...SHERMAN...
SHERWIN...SKIDMORE...STIPPVILLE...TREECE...WEIR AND WEST MINERAL.

PEOPLE IN CHEROKEE COUNTY...INCLUDING WEST MINERAL...CARONA...
COLUMBUS...SCAMMON...TREECE...WEIR...BAXTER SPRINGS AND GALENA...
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.

LAT...LON 3734 9508 3734 9477 3734 9462 3700 9462
      3700 9507 3700 9508 3733 9509
TIME...MOT...LOC 1649Z 278DEG 23KT 3737 9504 3712 9500
          3692 9518

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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 2:06 PM 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
Aug 8, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	31 min
Aug 9, 11:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cherokee	41 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.