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Special Weather Statement, NWS Springfield, MO

May 28, 2015Camden County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2015, 4:49 PM CDT for Camden 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: May 28, 2015, 4:49 PM CDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2015, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

County Camden County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 1203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 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 May 28, 3:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 4:22 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 11:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 11:54 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 12:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 4:14 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
414 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

MOZ080-282145-
DALLAS MO-
414 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN DALLAS COUNTY UNTIL 445
PM CDT...

AT 413 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUFFALO...MOVING NORTH AT 25
MPH. WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3780 9286 3780 9285 3761 9287 3762 9317
      3785 9319 3790 9318 3789 9286
TIME...MOT...LOC 2114Z 196DEG 20KT 3769 9302

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Special weather statement, May 28, 4:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
449 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

MOZ069-080-081-282215-
CAMDEN MO-LACLEDE MO-DALLAS MO-
449 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL CAMDEN...NORTHEASTERN
DALLAS AND NORTHWESTERN LACLEDE COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM CDT...

AT 446 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEADMINE...OR 14 MILES
NORTHEAST OF BUFFALO...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. WINDS AROUND 50 MPH
ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE BENNETT SPRINGS...BRANCH...CAMDENTON...
LEADMINE...LINN CREEK...MACKS CREEK...PLAD...ROACH AND TUNAS.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY INCLUDE HA HA
TONKA STATE PARK AND LAKE OF THE OZARKS.

LAT...LON 3810 9295 3806 9270 3770 9286 3775 9307
TIME...MOT...LOC 2150Z 198DEG 28KT 3783 9292

GRIFFIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 9:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Texas	29 min
May 27, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Howell	31 min
May 27, 9:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	McDonald	36 min
May 27, 10:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Texas	6 hr
May 28, 10:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	SGF	Barry, Barton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 26 more	50 hr
May 28, 11:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Miller	36 min
May 28, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dallas	31 min
May 28, 4:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Polk	4 hr
May 28, 5:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Camden, Laclede	5 hr
May 28, 6:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Laclede	4 hr
May 28, 11:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	6 hr
May 28, 11:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee	6 hr
May 28, 4:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee	6 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Missouri, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.