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Freeze Warning 10, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this freeze warning at Oct 15, 2018, 3:37 AM CDT for 13 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Oct 16, 2018, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 15, 2018, 3:37 AM CDT (08:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 16, 2018, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2018, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 15, 12:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 12:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Springfield MO 709 PM CDT Sun Oct 14 2018 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-160015- Bourbon-Crawford-Cherokee-Benton-Morgan-Miller-Maries-Vernon- St. Clair-Hickory-Camden-Pulaski-Phelps-Barton-Cedar-Polk-Dallas- Laclede-Texas-Dent-Jasper-Dade-Greene-Webster-Wright-Newton- Lawrence-Christian-Douglas-Howell-Shannon-McDonald-Barry-Stone- Taney-Ozark-Oregon- 709 PM CDT Sun Oct 14 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of the Missouri Ozarks and extreme southeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Weather hazards expected... Limited lightning risk. Limited non thunderstorm wind risk. DISCUSSION... Showers will move into the area this evening and overnight. A few lightning strikes can not be ruled out across southeast Kansas and southern Missouri. Gusty north winds up to 35 mph will be possible tonight as a cold front moves through. The highest gusts will be across southeast Kansas and western Missouri. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. There continues to be a strong signal for frost and possibly a light freeze Monday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight. && More detailed information can be accessed at: http://www.weather.gov/sgf/sitrep This product in graphical format...along with other weather... hydrological and climate information...at http://www.weather.gov/sgf Cramer
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 14, 11:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas, Wright | 37 min |
| Oct 15, 3:37 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | SGF | Barry, Camden, Christian, Dallas, Dent, Douglas and 14 more | 29 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Missouri, 2018Freeze Warnings in Kansas, 2018Every freeze warning in 2018
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.