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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Springfield, MO

March 30, 2025Douglas County, Howell County, Ozark County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2025, 5:01 PM CDT for Douglas County, Howell County, Ozark County, Missouri. It was in force for 39 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: Mar 30, 2025, 5:01 PM CDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2025, 5:40 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Ozark County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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
Mar 30, 2:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 265 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 Mar 30, 3:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 3:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 30, 4:27 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 30, 4:30 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 30, 4:33 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 30, 4:41 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 30, 4:42 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 30, 4:50 PM CDT, 11 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
Mar 30, 2:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	McDonald, Newton	41 min
Mar 30, 2:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barton, Jasper	56 min
Mar 30, 2:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	53 min
Mar 30, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade, St. Clair, Vernon	46 min
Mar 30, 3:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair	39 min
Mar 30, 3:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Stone, Taney	35 min
Mar 30, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	35 min
Mar 30, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark	63 min
Mar 30, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Dent	31 min
Mar 30, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	27 min
Mar 30, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	34 min
Mar 30, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	39 min
Mar 30, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	62 min
Mar 30, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	60 min
Mar 30, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark	58 min
Mar 30, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Barry	24 min
Mar 30, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	48 min
Mar 30, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Taney	47 min
Mar 30, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	42 min
Mar 30, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Ozark	66 min
Mar 30, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	63 min
Mar 30, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Christian, Stone, Taney	49 min
Mar 30, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	23 min
Mar 30, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Taney	47 min
Mar 30, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Shannon, Texas	27 min
Mar 30, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon, Shannon	27 min
Mar 30, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	23 min
Mar 30, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	55 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.