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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 260, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 14, 2020, 5:31 PM CST for 4 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 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
- Nov 14, 2020, 5:31 PM CST (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2020, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Barton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 5:14 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 937 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 556 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 567 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Nov 14, 3:48 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 3:48 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 14, 2:34 PM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Springfield MO 234 PM CST Sat Nov 14 2020 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-152045- 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- 234 PM CST Sat Nov 14 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of the Missouri Ozarks and extreme southeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Weather hazards expected... Limited tornado risk. Limited hail risk. Limited thunderstorm wind damage risk. Limited lightning risk. Elevated non thunderstorm wind risk. DISCUSSION... Some scattered strong to severe storms will be possible beginning after dark and continuing through the late evening with the approach of a strong cold front. Damaging wind gusts in excess of 60 mph will be the main severe weather risk. A few brief tornadoes will also be possible, along with hail to the size of quarters. Thunderstorms will end from west to east across the area by midnight. Sustained winds of 20 to 30 mph and gusts of 30 to 45 mph will be possible into the early evening ahead of the approaching cold front. The highest winds will remain across extreme southeast Kansas and western Missouri where a Wind Advisory has been issued. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Fire weather conditions will be elevated on Sunday with a much drier air mass moving into the area late tonight behind the front. Winds will remain gusty on Sunday with some gusts of 30 to 35 mph possible. Some elevated fire weather conditions will also be possible on Monday afternoon with some wind gusts of 20 to 25 mph and low relative humidities. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed later today or tonight for much of the area as all modes of severe storms will be possible. && 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 Rothstein
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 14, 5:09 PM CST, 22 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Springfield MO
509 PM CST Sat Nov 14 2020
KSZ101-MOZ077-088-150000-
Cherokee KS-Barton MO-Jasper MO-
509 PM CST Sat Nov 14 2020
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN CHEROKEE...SOUTH
CENTRAL BARTON AND WESTERN JASPER COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM CST...
At 508 PM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Treece, or near Baxter Springs, moving northeast at 50 mph.
Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Northern Joplin... Carthage...
Webb City... Carl Junction...
Baxter Springs... Galena...
Oronogo... Carterville...
Jasper... Airport Drive...
Lowell... Alba...
Purcell... Nashville...
Carytown... Asbury...
Neck City... Treece...
Brooklyn Heights... Waco...
This includes Interstate 49 between mile markers 44 and 54.
LAT...LON 3745 9441 3725 9422 3706 9460 3706 9461
3705 9462 3699 9472 3700 9491 3706 9497
TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 238DEG 43KT 3704 9480
AlbanoThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 10:23 AM CST | Wind Advisory | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, St. Clair, Vernon | 8 hr |
| Nov 14, 5:09 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Jasper | 51 min |
| Nov 14, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade, Hickory, Polk | 51 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.