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Special Weather Statement, NWS Springfield, MO

October 6, 2016Stone County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this special weather statement at Oct 6, 2016, 3:05 PM CDT for Stone County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 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: Oct 6, 2016, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired: Oct 6, 2016, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

County Stone County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 329 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: 1009 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 5.8

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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 Oct 6, 2:52 PM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 2:52 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 6, 1:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 6, 12:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1245 PM CDT THU OCT 06 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1243 PM     FLASH FLOOD      3 NW COLUMBUS           37.20N 94.88W
10/06/2016                   CHEROKEE           KS   EMERGENCY MNGR

            1/4 MILE SECTION OF NORTHWEST 30TH STREET HAD 1 FOOT OF
            WATER FLOWING OVER THE ROAD

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RABERDING

Special weather statement, Oct 6, 3:05 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
305 PM CDT THU OCT 6 2016

MOZ095-103-104-062030-
CHRISTIAN MO-TANEY MO-STONE MO-
305 PM CDT THU OCT 6 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CHRISTIAN...
NORTHWESTERN TANEY AND SOUTHEASTERN STONE COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM
CDT...

AT 304 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
INDIAN POINT...OR NEAR KIMBERLING CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BRANSON...                        TABLE ROCK STATE PARK...
TABLE ROCK LAKE...                LAKE TANEYCOMO...
HOLLISTER...                      SILVER DOLLAR CITY...
KIMBERLING CITY...                MERRIAM WOODS...
REEDS SPRING...                   ROCKAWAY BEACH...
BULL CREEK...                     INDIAN POINT...
BRANSON WEST...                   TABLE ROCK...
SPOKANE...                        CHESTNUTRIDGE...
WALNUT SHADE...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF ON OR NEAR TABLE ROCK LAKE...GET OUT OF THE WATER AND MOVE
INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE OUT TO
10 MILES FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU
ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER
NOW! DO NOT BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM.

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LAT...LON 3659 9327 3660 9345 3685 9334 3687 9314
      3679 9306
TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 217DEG 13KT 3665 9335

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 6, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	5 days
Oct 6, 11:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Vernon	6 hr
Oct 5, 8:34 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	SGF	Bourbon	3 days
Oct 6, 8:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	6 hr
Oct 6, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon	59 hr
Oct 6, 2:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	21 hr
Oct 6, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Bourbon	32 min
Oct 6, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.