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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Springfield, MO

May 28, 2016Douglas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2016, 6:28 PM CDT for Douglas County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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: May 28, 2016, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Douglas County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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
May 28, 6:55 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	6 Ssw Brushyknob, MO	PICTURE RELAYED VIA EMAIL.

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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

689 
WUUS53 KSGF 282328
SVRSGF
MOC067-290015-
/O.NEW.KSGF.SV.W.0071.160528T2328Z-160529T0015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
628 PM CDT SAT MAY 28 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 627 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF
  OVER AVA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS EXTENDS THE SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY.

  HAZARD...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  AVA...                            BRUSHYKNOB...
  VANZANT...                        

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3695 9272 3706 9258 3706 9219 3690 9238
      3686 9267
TIME...MOT...LOC 2327Z 243DEG 20KT 3694 9262 

HAIL...1.75IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

RUNNELS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Maries	46 min
May 28, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	48 min
May 28, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	35 min
May 28, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	37 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.