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Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this fire weather watch at Mar 14, 2016, 3:50 AM CDT for 8 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 15, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2016, 3:50 AM CDT (08:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 15, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2016, 3:06 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:53 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 7:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene | 10 hr |
| Mar 13, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence | 51 min |
| Mar 13, 7:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Greene, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 10:47 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | SGF | Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 19 more | 12 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.