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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Springfield, MO

March 29, 2017Douglas County, Ozark County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2017, 8:16 PM CDT for Douglas County, Ozark County, Missouri. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports 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: Mar 29, 2017, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2017, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Douglas County, MO, Ozark County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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 was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 29, 8:37 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	4 E Brushyknob, MO	.
Mar 29, 8:45 PM CDT	HAIL 1	5 Ne Squires, MO	.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 29, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 708 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 271 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 4.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

049 
WUUS53 KSGF 300116
SVRSGF
MOC067-153-300200-
/O.NEW.KSGF.SV.W.0101.170330T0116Z-170330T0200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Springfield MO
816 PM CDT WED MAR 29 2017

The National Weather Service in Springfield has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Western Ozark County in southwestern Missouri...
  Eastern Douglas County in southwestern Missouri...

* Until 900 PM CDT

* At 816 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 13 miles northwest
  of Gainesville, or 18 miles south of Ava, moving northeast at 40
  mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees. 

* Locations impacted include...
  Wasola...                         Brixey...
  Noble...                          Willhoit...
  Brushyknob...                     Gentryville...
  Thornfield...                     Squires...
  Rockbridge...                     Long Run...
  Isabella...                       Drury...
  Vanzant...                        

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

A tornado watch remains in effect until 1100 PM CDT for southwestern
Missouri.

LAT...LON 3667 9277 3671 9276 3682 9269 3706 9246
      3685 9210 3657 9260
TIME...MOT...LOC 0116Z 218DEG 36KT 3669 9264 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

Wise

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 7:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Phelps	54 min
Mar 29, 7:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Texas	36 min
Mar 29, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Texas	61 min
Mar 29, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark, Taney	47 min
Mar 29, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede	43 min
Mar 29, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Douglas	35 min
Mar 29, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller	43 min
Mar 29, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	50 min
Mar 29, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Texas, Wright	48 min
Mar 29, 8:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Douglas	46 min
Mar 29, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede	42 min
Mar 29, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller	27 min
Mar 29, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps, Texas	34 min
Mar 29, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Howell	44 min
Mar 30, 12:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Oregon	59 min
Mar 30, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	20 min
Mar 30, 1:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Maries, Pulaski	48 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.