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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Springfield, MO

March 17, 2021Bourbon County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2021, 5:00 AM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 17, 2021, 5:00 AM CDT (10:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 17, 2021, 5:30 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Bourbon County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:03 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 17, 5:05 AM CDT	HAIL 0.75	5 W Devon, KS	REPORT FROM MPING: DIME (0.75 IN.).

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 17, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-p

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 964 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 295 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 405 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

880 
WUUS53 KSGF 171000
SVRSGF
KSC011-171030-
/O.NEW.KSGF.SV.W.0003.210317T1000Z-210317T1030Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Springfield MO
500 AM CDT Wed Mar 17 2021

The National Weather Service in Springfield has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northeastern Bourbon County in southeastern Kansas...

* Until 530 AM CDT.

* At 459 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles west of
  Fulton, or 12 miles south of Mound City, moving northeast at 30
  mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Fulton...                         Mapleton...
  Devon...                          Harding...
  Hammond...                        Xenia...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3804 9462 3788 9462 3787 9489 3804 9502
TIME...MOT...LOC 0959Z 242DEG 27KT 3798 9488 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

Raberding

1 follow-up statement

577 
WWUS53 KSGF 171025
SVSSGF

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Springfield MO
525 AM CDT Wed Mar 17 2021

KSC011-171034-
/O.EXP.KSGF.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-210317T1030Z/
Bourbon KS-
525 AM CDT Wed Mar 17 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BOURBON COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 530 AM CDT...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 AM CDT for
southeastern Kansas.

LAT...LON 3804 9462 3788 9462 3787 9489 3804 9502
TIME...MOT...LOC 1024Z 270DEG 27KT 3805 9467 

$$

Raberding

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 17, 2:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	SGF	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	19 hr
Mar 17, 4:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Bourbon	40 min
Mar 17, 5:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	42 min
Mar 17, 5:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	57 min
Mar 17, 2:11 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	SGF	Bourbon	14 hr
Mar 17, 4:56 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon	60 hr

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.