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Special Weather Statement, NWS Springfield, MO

May 27, 2021Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this special weather statement at May 27, 2021, 4:00 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2021, 4:00 AM CDT (09:00 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2021, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 1258 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1396 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 27, 3:23 AM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:23 AM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 1:20 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 27, 3:27 AM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 4:00 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 8:12 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	24 hr
May 27, 3:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Vernon	48 min
May 27, 5:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Benton	34 min
May 27, 9:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Cedar	11 hr
May 27, 9:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	11 hr
May 27, 10:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	4 hr
May 27, 10:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	SGF	Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 19 more	8 hr
May 27, 11:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	8 hr
May 27, 11:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair	45 min
May 27, 11:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	38 min
May 27, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Polk	60 min
May 27, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Webster	53 min
May 27, 12:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Pulaski	66 min
May 27, 12:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	6 hr
May 27, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	38 min
May 27, 1:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden, Christian, Dallas, Greene, Laclede, Polk and 1 more	5 hr
May 27, 1:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries, Phelps	41 min
May 27, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas, Wright	56 min
May 27, 1:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, Lawrence, Newton	6 hr
May 27, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, McDonald, Newton	59 min
May 27, 1:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Christian, Stone	55 min
May 27, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Webster, Wright	54 min
May 27, 1:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dent, Texas	51 min
May 27, 2:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Stone	6 hr
May 27, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	47 min
May 27, 2:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas	6 hr
May 27, 2:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Howell	53 min
May 27, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	50 min
May 27, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	43 min
May 27, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Oregon, Shannon	62 min
May 27, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Christian	39 min
May 27, 3:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Barry, McDonald	6 hr
May 27, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Taney	41 min
May 27, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark, Taney	36 min
May 27, 4:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry	6 hr
May 27, 4:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Ozark, Stone, Taney	6 hr
May 27, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	47 min
May 27, 5:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	McDonald	4 hr
May 27, 6:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Dallas, Greene, Hickory, Laclede, Polk and 2 more	15 hr
May 27, 6:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	22 hr
May 26, 8:09 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon	67 hr
May 27, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	44 min

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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.