Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2015, 9:59 AM CDT for Greene County, Polk County, Missouri. It was in force for 16 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2015, 9:59 AM CDT (14:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2015, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Greene County, MO, Polk County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 10:00 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 E Willard, MO | POWER LINES PHYSICALLY DOWN. |
| Aug 8, 10:05 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 N Springfield, MO | POWERLINES DOWN. |
| Aug 8, 10:12 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 6 N Springfield, MO | AT LEAST TWO BARNS DAMAGED AND ONE DESTROYED NEAR FARM RD 66 AND 174 AREA. |
| Aug 8, 10:12 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 6 N Springfield, MO | BARN DAMAGED NEAR FARM RD 66 AND 174. |
| Aug 8, 10:12 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 6 N Springfield, MO | BARN DAMAGED OR DESTROYED NEAR FARM RD 66 AND 174. |
| Aug 8, 10:12 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 6 Sw Fair Grove, MO | NWS SURVEY TEAM DETERMINED THAT MAXIMUM STRAIGHT LINE THUNDERSTORM WINDS OF 95 TO 100 MPH CAUSED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO TREES AND A COUPLE OF STRUCTURES JUST WEST OF FELLOWS LAKE. SEVERAL TREES WERE UPROOTED OR SNAPPED. AT LEAST THREE POWER POLES WERE SNAPPED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 2768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
479
WUUS53 KSGF 081459
SVRSGF
MOC077-167-081515-
/O.NEW.KSGF.SV.W.0252.150808T1459Z-150808T1515Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
959 AM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI...
SOUTHEASTERN POLK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 1015 AM CDT
* AT 958 AM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR MORRISVILLE TO WILLARD TO NEAR REPUBLIC...
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORTHWESTERN SPRINGFIELD... WILLARD...
PLEASANT HOPE... MORRISVILLE...
BROOKLINE... SACVILLE...
BOIS D'ARC... BRIGHTON...
CAVE SPRINGS... GLIDEWELL...
EBENEZER...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 61 AND 63...BETWEEN
MILE MARKERS 65 AND 68...AND BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 70 AND 80.
THESE STORMS HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3719 9358 3720 9361 3725 9353 3732 9347
3737 9350 3750 9353 3751 9338 3748 9326
3744 9318 3725 9323 3717 9336
TIME...MOT...LOC 1458Z 284DEG 31KT 3742 9341 3738 9337 3730 9339 3720
9351
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
CRAMERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:05 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | SGF | Camden, Christian, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Laclede and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 8, 7:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Vernon | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 8:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Vernon | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 8:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 8:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Dade, Jasper | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 9:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Greene, Lawrence, Polk | 48 min |
| Aug 8, 9:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone, Webster | 54 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.