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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 335, NWS Springfield, MO

October 18, 2025Benton County, Hickory County, St. Clair County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 2025, 12:17 PM CDT for Benton County, Hickory County, St. Clair County, Missouri. It was in force for 43 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: Oct 18, 2025, 12:17 PM CDT (17:17 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Benton County, MO, Hickory County, MO, St. Clair County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Oct 18, 11:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1043 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Oct 18, 6:36 AM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 6:36 AM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 18, 6:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 18, 10:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 18, 11:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 18, 11:16 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Oct 18, 11:27 AM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 18, 11:28 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 18, 12:07 PM CDT, 10 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
Oct 18, 6:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Vernon	31 min
Oct 18, 7:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair, Vernon	45 min
Oct 18, 7:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	St. Clair	45 min
Oct 18, 8:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Benton	39 min
Oct 18, 9:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Greene	38 min
Oct 18, 10:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Laclede	47 min
Oct 18, 10:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Wright	42 min
Oct 18, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Hickory, Morgan	40 min
Oct 18, 10:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Pulaski	24 min
Oct 18, 11:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Morgan	36 min
Oct 18, 11:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Vernon	29 min
Oct 18, 11:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Phelps	33 min
Oct 18, 12:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Texas	38 min
Oct 18, 12:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Cedar, Hickory, Polk	40 min
Oct 18, 12:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dent	39 min
Oct 18, 1:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dade, Jasper	29 min
Oct 18, 1:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Camden, Dade, Dallas, Hickory, Miller, Polk	32 min
Oct 18, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	51 min
Oct 18, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Greene, Lawrence, Polk	26 min
Oct 18, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Miller, Polk	25 min
Oct 18, 1:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dade, Greene, Lawrence, Newton	24 min
Oct 18, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Webster	29 min
Oct 18, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry, Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone, Taney and 1 more	31 min
Oct 18, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede	29 min
Oct 18, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Laclede, Webster, Wright	51 min
Oct 18, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry, Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Stone, Taney and 2 more	35 min
Oct 18, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Laclede, Pulaski	33 min
Oct 18, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Douglas, Laclede, Phelps, Texas, Wright	40 min
Oct 18, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski	33 min
Oct 18, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Taney, Texas, Wright	31 min
Oct 18, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Douglas, Howell, Phelps, Shannon, Texas and 1 more	33 min
Oct 18, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Howell, Ozark	31 min
Oct 18, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Phelps	28 min
Oct 18, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dent, Shannon	33 min
Oct 18, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Howell	28 min
Oct 18, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Howell, Oregon, Shannon	35 min
Oct 18, 6:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Bourbon	24 min
Oct 18, 10:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Crawford	36 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.