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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 342, NWS Springfield, MO

November 17, 2025Hickory County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 17, 2025, 12:27 PM CST for Hickory County, Missouri. It was in force for 33 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
Nov 17, 2025, 12:27 PM CST (18:27 UTC)
Expired
Nov 17, 2025, 1:00 PM CST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Hickory County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2025-11-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2025-11-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 311 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
311 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
286 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 17, 10:45 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementSGFDade30 min
Nov 17, 11:21 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementSGFSt. Clair24 min
Nov 17, 11:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCedar, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair34 min
Nov 17, 12:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBenton, Hickory48 min
Nov 17, 1:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBenton, Camden, Morgan43 min
Nov 17, 2:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMorgan31 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.