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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 356, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 20, 2019, 10:56 PM CDT for 5 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 49 min. 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 20, 2019, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2019, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Barry County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 10:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 20, 9:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 9:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 20, 7:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Springfield MO 744 PM CDT Sun Oct 20 2019 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-220045- 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- 744 PM CDT Sun Oct 20 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of the Missouri Ozarks and extreme southeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Weather hazards expected... Limited tornado risk. Elevated hail risk. Elevated thunderstorm wind damage risk. Significant lightning risk. Limited non thunderstorm wind risk. DISCUSSION... A cold front will move through the region later this evening into the overnight hours. A line of storms will develop along the front as it moves very quickly east through the outlook area. The best potential for severe storms will be along and south of I-44 from 9pm through 6am Monday morning. The main risk will be damaging straight line wind gusts up to 70 to 80 mph. Strong wind shear will also lead to a spin up tornado risk within the line. A few of the strongest storms may also be capable of hail up to the size of quarters. Frequent cloud to ground lightning can be expected with this line of storms. Gusty southerly winds will occur ahead the front, with gusts up to 30 mph possible at times. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Westerly non thunderstorm wind gusts around 30 to 35 mph are expected on Monday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed later this evening for western Missouri and southeast Kansas, and overnight across the remainder of the Missouri Ozarks. && 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 Lindenberg
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton | 47 min |
| Oct 21, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton | 46 min |
| Oct 21, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald, Stone | 42 min |
| Oct 21, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Lawrence | 41 min |
| Oct 21, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 50 min |
| Oct 21, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Douglas, Stone, Taney, Webster | 42 min |
| Oct 21, 12:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Webster | 31 min |
| Oct 21, 1:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Webster | 26 min |
| Oct 21, 1:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 37 min |
| Oct 21, 1:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark, Stone, Taney | 44 min |
| Oct 21, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Greene, Laclede, Webster, Wright | 42 min |
| Oct 21, 1:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Webster, Wright | 35 min |
| Oct 21, 1:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Greene, Laclede, Webster, Wright | 32 min |
| Oct 21, 1:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Ozark, Taney | 33 min |
| Oct 21, 2:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Texas | 29 min |
| Oct 21, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Texas, Wright | 41 min |
| Oct 21, 2:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Ozark | 35 min |
| Oct 21, 2:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Shannon, Texas | 34 min |
| Oct 21, 2:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Laclede, Pulaski, Texas, Wright | 32 min |
| Oct 21, 2:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Shannon | 31 min |
| Oct 21, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Howell, Phelps, Pulaski, Shannon, Texas | 47 min |
| Oct 21, 2:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Texas | 29 min |
| Oct 21, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Oregon | 30 min |
| Oct 21, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon, Shannon | 26 min |
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.