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Special Weather Statement, NWS Springfield, MO

May 25, 2018Ozark County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2018, 12:49 PM CDT for Ozark County, Missouri. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued: May 25, 2018, 12:49 PM CDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2018, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

County Ozark County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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.

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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: 740 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 25, 12:33 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 12:33 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 1:41 AM CDT, 11 hours 8 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Springfield MO
141 AM CDT Fri May 25 2018

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-260645-
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-
141 AM CDT Fri May 25 2018

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of the Missouri
Ozarks and extreme southeast Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight.

Weather hazards expected...

  Limited hail risk.
  Limited thunderstorm wind damage risk.
  Limited lightning risk.

DISCUSSION...

  Scattered thunderstorms will continue today. A few storms may
  produce strong wind gusts up to 60 mph and perhaps hail up to
  the size of quarters along with damaging wind gusts up to 60
  mph. Locally heavy rainfall and frequent lightning can also be
  expected with storms today.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.

  Isolated thunderstorms will then be possible on Saturday and
  again around the middle of next week.

  Afternoon heat indices in the middle to up to 100 degrees are
  expected from Saturday through next Wednesday, especially from
  southeastern Kansas into west-central Missouri.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

  Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight.

&&

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 12:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Springfield MO
1249 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2018

MOZ105-251845-
Ozark MO-
1249 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR OZARK COUNTY UNTIL 145 PM CDT...

At 1248 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Price Place, or 8 miles north of Bull Shoals, moving northeast at 20
mph. Elsewhere, other storms were scattered across western Ozark
county.

Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
these storm.

Locations impacted include...
Bull Shoals Lake...               Norfork Lake...
Gainesville...                    Bakersfield...
Theodosia...                      Pontiac...
Wasola...                         Sundown...
Brixey...                         Noble...
Willhoit...                       Tecumseh...
Udall...                          Hardenville...
Sycamore...                       Dora...
Rockbridge...                     Isabella...
Zanoni...

LAT...LON 3650 9268 3661 9271 3680 9258 3679 9212
      3650 9212
TIME...MOT...LOC 1748Z 244DEG 19KT 3650 9260

Raberding

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:05 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Greene	3 hr
May 24, 7:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Vernon	6 hr
May 24, 8:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Laclede	38 min
May 24, 8:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	6 hr
May 25, 3:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	67 hr
May 25, 3:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	7 hr
May 25, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Christian	41 min
May 25, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Webster	52 min
May 25, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Texas	50 min
May 25, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Webster	46 min
May 25, 5:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Christian	6 hr
May 25, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Webster, Wright	40 min
May 25, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dent	59 min
May 25, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark, Taney	63 min
May 25, 5:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Laclede, Texas	6 hr
May 25, 5:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dent, Phelps	6 hr
May 25, 6:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Douglas	43 min
May 25, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Christian	51 min
May 25, 6:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Taney	6 hr
May 25, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	62 min
May 25, 6:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Greene	51 min
May 24, 7:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	6 hr

Nearby

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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.