Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 5
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 24, 2015, 2:59 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2015, 2:59 PM CDT (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 81 counties
Baxter County, AR, Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Osage County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Wagoner County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
44 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 45 min |
| Mar 24, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Crawford | 49 min |
| Mar 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 47 min |
| Mar 24, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 47 min |
| Mar 24, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 48 min |
| Mar 24, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates, Cass, Henry, Johnson | 33 min |
| Mar 24, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade | 54 min |
| Mar 24, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 33 min |
| Mar 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 30 min |
| Mar 24, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 36 min |
| Mar 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence | 52 min |
| Mar 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 21 min |
| Mar 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 30 min |
| Mar 24, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Saline | 27 min |
| Mar 24, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Greene | 54 min |
| Mar 24, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 32 min |
| Mar 24, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone, Taney | 61 min |
| Mar 24, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Webster | 25 min |
| Mar 24, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Saline | 25 min |
| Mar 24, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 35 min |
| Mar 24, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Madison, Washington | 24 min |
| Mar 24, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Pettis | 23 min |
| Mar 24, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 47 min |
| Mar 24, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 30 min |
| Mar 24, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone, Taney | 60 min |
| Mar 24, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 41 min |
| Mar 24, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 46 min |
| Mar 24, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 44 min |
| Mar 24, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 31 min |
| Mar 24, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 28 min |
| Mar 24, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 27 min |
| Mar 24, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster, Wright | 39 min |
| Mar 24, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark, Taney | 40 min |
| Mar 24, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 20 min |
| Mar 24, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 46 min |
| Mar 24, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 30 min |
| Mar 24, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion | 31 min |
| Mar 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope | 30 min |
| Mar 24, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 26 min |
| Mar 24, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion | 34 min |
| Mar 24, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Searcy | 32 min |
| Mar 24, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, LeFlore | 41 min |
| Mar 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 45 min |
| Mar 24, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Cole, Gasconade, Osage | 44 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 10 more | 85 min |
| Mar 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Crawford and 13 more | 90 min |
| Mar 24, 5:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Montgomery, Polk, Sevier | 3 hr |
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.