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Special Weather Statement, NWS Springfield, MO

June 16, 2016Webster County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2016, 4:08 PM CDT for Webster County, Missouri. It was in force for 52 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: Jun 16, 2016, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

County Webster County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 772 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -288 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Jun 16, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 3:25 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:06 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
406 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2016

MOZ078-079-089-090-162145-
GREENE MO-DADE MO-POLK MO-CEDAR MO-
406 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN DADE...SOUTHEASTERN
CEDAR...NORTHWESTERN GREENE AND SOUTHWESTERN POLK COUNTIES UNTIL 445
PM CDT...

AT 406 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES NORTHWEST OF WALNUT GROVE...OR 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF
GREENFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IN THE ADVISORY INCLUDE...
BOLIVAR...                        STOCKTON LAKE...
STOCKTON STATE PARK...            WALNUT GROVE...
FAIR PLAY...                      MORRISVILLE...
DADEVILLE...                      ALDRICH...
MASTERS...                        EUDORA...
DUNNEGAN...                       CANE HILL...
BONA...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3752 9380 3761 9371 3780 9349 3755 9320
      3743 9342 3733 9361
TIME...MOT...LOC 2106Z 233DEG 25KT 3749 9364

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:08 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
408 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2016

MOZ091-162200-
WEBSTER MO-
408 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY UNTIL 500
PM CDT...

AT 408 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
MARSHFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IN THE ADVISORY INCLUDE...
MARSHFIELD...                     NIANGUA...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 44 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 96 AND 104.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3732 9302 3748 9279 3748 9277 3738 9269
      3729 9269 3723 9292
TIME...MOT...LOC 2108Z 248DEG 16KT 3732 9292

GRIFFIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	40 min
Jun 16, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Polk	39 min
Jun 16, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	18 min
Jun 16, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	45 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Missouri, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.