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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Springfield, MO

May 18, 2022Stone County, Taney County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2022, 9:04 PM CDT for Stone County, Taney County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 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: May 18, 2022, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2022, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 54 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: 1827 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 May 18, 6:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 6:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 7:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 18, 8:14 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 8:36 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 18, 8:54 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 18, 8:55 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 18, 9:03 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
903 PM CDT WED MAY 18 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0858 PM     HAIL             4 SW TABLE ROCK         36.57N 93.35W
05/18/2022  E1.00 INCH       STONE              MO   AMATEUR RADIO

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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 18, 8:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Stone	31 min
May 18, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone, Taney	46 min
May 18, 8:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Taney	24 min
May 18, 8:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Barry, Stone, Taney	6 hr
May 18, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark, Taney	40 min
May 18, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	52 min
May 18, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	46 min
May 18, 11:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Stone	6 hr
May 19, 6:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Newton	34 min
May 19, 6:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barton	30 min
May 19, 6:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Lawrence	37 min
May 19, 7:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Vernon	26 min
May 19, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Lawrence, Stone	27 min
May 19, 7:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Taney	27 min
May 19, 7:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Stone, Webster	49 min
May 19, 8:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Webster	25 min
May 19, 8:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Laclede	27 min
May 19, 8:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas, Wright	42 min
May 19, 8:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	St. Clair	71 hr
May 19, 9:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Laclede, Maries, Miller, Pulaski	42 min
May 19, 9:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Texas	23 min
May 19, 9:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Maries, Miller, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	39 min
May 19, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	63 min
May 19, 12:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk	49 min
May 19, 1:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	36 hr
May 19, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede, Webster, Wright	66 min
May 19, 1:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Polk	6 hr
May 19, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Webster, Wright	47 min
May 19, 1:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Christian, Greene, Laclede, Lawrence, Webster, Wright	6 hr
May 19, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Wright	50 min
May 19, 2:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	6 hr
May 19, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	59 min
May 19, 2:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski	24 min
May 19, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Wright	34 min
May 19, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Dent, Phelps, Shannon, Texas	42 min
May 19, 3:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Phelps	51 min
May 19, 3:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Laclede, Phelps, Pulaski, Wright	6 hr
May 19, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Shannon, Texas	50 min
May 19, 3:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell, Shannon, Texas	28 min
May 19, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Shannon	34 min
May 19, 6:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Maries, Phelps, Pulaski	6 hr
May 19, 5:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	46 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.