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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Springfield, MO

June 3, 20244 counties in Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2024, 2:34 PM CDT for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 13 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 3, 2024, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2024, 2:47 PM CDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Camden County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Miller County, MO, Pulaski County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -205 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 3, 12:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 12:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 5:30 AM CDT, 9 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:22 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:25 PM CDT, 9 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 3, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede, Webster	48 min
Jun 3, 1:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Polk, Webster	6 hr
Jun 3, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede	48 min
Jun 3, 2:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Christian, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Laclede, Webster and 1 more	6 hr
Jun 3, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Laclede	53 min
Jun 3, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Camden	50 min
Jun 3, 2:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede	6 hr
Jun 3, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Miller	41 min
Jun 3, 8:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cherokee	27 min
Jun 3, 8:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee	6 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.