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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Springfield, MO

June 11, 2023Cherokee County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2023, 12:54 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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: Jun 11, 2023, 12:54 AM CDT (05:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2023, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Cherokee County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 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-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: 33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Jun 11, 12:44 AM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 12:44 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 8:21 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 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
Jun 11, 3:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	McDonald	27 min
Jun 11, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry	13 min
Jun 11, 2:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Dade, Lawrence	3 hr
Jun 11, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Christian	23 min
Jun 11, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone, Taney	43 min
Jun 11, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Taney	56 min
Jun 11, 1:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cherokee	24 min
Jun 11, 2:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Cherokee	4 hr

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.