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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Springfield, MO

June 5, 2024Cedar County, Dade County, Polk County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2024, 12:31 AM CDT for Cedar County, Dade County, Polk County, Missouri. It was in force for 29 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 5, 2024, 12:31 AM CDT (05:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Polk County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 1234 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.0

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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 4, 5:58 PM CDT, 6 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 5:58 PM CDT, 6 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 4, 11:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Vernon	23 min
Jun 5, 1:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Polk	5 hr
Jun 5, 2:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Dallas	4 hr
Jun 4, 9:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Bourbon	67 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.