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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2024, 4:21 PM CDT for Vernon County, Missouri; Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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 21, 2024, 4:21 PM CDT (21:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2024, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 594 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 May 21, 3:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 3:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 10:35 AM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Springfield MO 1035 AM CDT Tue May 21 2024 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-221545- 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- 1035 AM CDT Tue May 21 2024 ...Enhanced Risk for Storms Producing Baseball or Larger Hail... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of the Missouri Ozarks and extreme southeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Weather hazards expected... Limited tornado risk. Signficant hail risk. Elevated thunderstorm wind damage risk. Elevated lightning risk. Limited excessive rainfall risk Elevated non thunderstorm wind risk. DISCUSSION... Southerly winds will gust to 40 mph ahead of the development of thunderstorms this afternoon. A cold front will bring the potential for severe weather late this afternoon into tonight. Hail to the size of baseballs or larger along with damaging winds to 70 mph will be the main threats. There is a limited tornado threat mainly west of Highway 65 as well as localized flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Thunderstorm chances will continue Wednesday into Thursday bringing additional rounds of severe weather. Damaging winds will be the main threat with these storms, but large hail, a spinup tornado or two, and flooding are secondary threats. Daily 30-50% chances for showers and thunderstorms exist through Memorial Day Weekend. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this afternoon over west central Missouri through southeast Kansas by 3 PM extending southeastward into this evening. && More detailed information can be accessed at: http://www.weather.gov/sgf/dsspacket This product in graphical format...along with other weather... hydrological and climate information...at http://www.weather.gov/sgf Runnels
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 21, 4:08 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Springfield MO
408 PM CDT Tue May 21 2024
KSZ073-212145-
Bourbon KS-
408 PM CDT Tue May 21 2024
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT BOURBON COUNTY THROUGH 445 PM
CDT...
At 407 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Fulton to Uniontown to 7 miles east of
Chanute. Movement was east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Fort Scott, Marmaton, Bronson, Uniontown, Fulton, Redfield, Mapleton,
Harding, Pawnee Station, Hiattville, Petersburg, Hammond, Devon,
Garland, Porterville, and Xenia.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for southeastern
Kansas...and west central Missouri.
&&
LAT...LON 3804 9508 3804 9479 3803 9477 3803 9461
3767 9462 3768 9509
TIME...MOT...LOC 2107Z 265DEG 31KT 3804 9481 3786 9498 3769 9533
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
NelsonThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 39 min |
| May 21, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair, Vernon | 51 min |
| May 21, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Benton | 33 min |
| May 21, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Morgan, St. Clair | 53 min |
| May 21, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Vernon | 55 min |
| May 21, 6:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Polk | 51 min |
| May 21, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller, Morgan | 65 min |
| May 21, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Miller, Morgan | 24 min |
| May 21, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | SGF | Bourbon | 37 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.