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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Springfield, MO

August 10, 2025Camden County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2025, 5:13 PM CDT for Camden County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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
Aug 10, 2025, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2025, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Camden County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 430 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2025-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 460 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2025-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
460 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1321 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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 Aug 10, 3:13 PM CDT, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 3:13 PM CDT, 2 hours before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 4:52 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Springfield MO
452 PM CDT Sun Aug 10 2025

KSZ073-097-102215-
Bourbon KS-Crawford KS-
452 PM CDT Sun Aug 10 2025

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT BOURBON AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES
THROUGH 515 PM CDT...

At 452 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong
thunderstorms along a line extending from near Redfield to 8 miles
east of St. Paul. Movement was east at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch 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...
Pittsburg, Fort Scott, Frontenac, Girard, Arma, Marmaton, Mulberry,
Franklin, Bronson, Arcadia, Uniontown, Walnut, Fulton, Redfield,
Hepler, Beulah, Croweburg, Yale, Harding, and Petersburg.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

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LAT...LON 3794 9507 3804 9461 3742 9462 3738 9509
TIME...MOT...LOC 2152Z 257DEG 19KT 3788 9487 3747 9503

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

Hatch

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCedar, Dade, Polk27 min
Aug 10, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCedar, Polk30 min
Aug 10, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarton, Cedar, Vernon25 min
Aug 10, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFHickory29 min
Aug 10, 2:35 PM CDTFlood WatchSGFBourbon12 hr
Aug 10, 4:52 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementSGFBourbon, Crawford23 min
Aug 10, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBourbon29 min
Aug 10, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBourbon, Crawford42 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.