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Freeze Warning 8, NWS Springfield, MO

October 23, 20205 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this freeze warning at Oct 23, 2020, 2:29 PM CDT for 5 counties in Missouri; Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It took effect at Oct 24, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 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 23, 2020, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 24, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 24, 2020, 3:36 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO

Counties Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Jasper County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2020-10-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 752 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2020-10-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
752 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
2.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 2:29 PM CDTFrost AdvisorySGFCamden, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Hickory, Lawrence and 5 more8 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Missouri, 2020Freeze Warnings in Kansas, 2020Every freeze warning in 2020

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.