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Special Weather Statement, NWS Springfield, MO

August 26, 2014Phelps County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this special weather statement at Aug 26, 2014, 3:03 PM CDT for Phelps County, Missouri. It was in force for 12 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 26, 2014, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2014, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 12 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

County Phelps County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 1491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1305 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 26, 12:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 12:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 26, 10:14 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 26, 3:03 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
303 PM CDT TUE AUG 26 2014

MOZ071-262015-
PHELPS MO-
303 PM CDT TUE AUG 26 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL PHELPS COUNTY UNTIL 315
PM CDT...

AT 300 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR DOOLITTLE...OR 7 MILES WEST OF ROLLA...
MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE DOOLITTLE...JEROME...NEWBURG AND ROLLA.

INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 169 AND 185 WILL ALSO BE IMPACTED
BY THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3784 9178 3783 9202 3801 9202 3801 9197
      3804 9195 3804 9194 3803 9193 3804 9192
      3803 9176
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 077DEG 3KT 3794 9190

WISE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede	17 min
Aug 26, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dallas	18 min
Aug 26, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Laclede	27 min
Aug 26, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	23 min
Aug 26, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Camden	24 min
Aug 26, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cedar	35 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.