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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Springfield, MO

April 28, 2026Benton County, Miller County, Morgan County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2026, 12:36 PM CDT for Benton County, Miller County, Morgan 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: Apr 28, 2026, 12:36 PM CDT (17:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2026, 1:15 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Benton County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:35 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
Apr 28, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1333 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 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 Apr 28, 6:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 6:40 AM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 5:30 AM CDT, 7 hours 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 28, 11:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 11:51 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 11:58 AM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 12:04 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 12:29 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 12:34 PM CDT, 2 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
Apr 27, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Shannon, Texas	56 min
Apr 27, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Howell, Oregon, Shannon, Texas	54 min
Apr 27, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Taney	51 min
Apr 27, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark	50 min
Apr 27, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SGF	Howell, Oregon, Shannon	63 min
Apr 27, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon, Shannon	60 min
Apr 27, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Shannon	32 min
Apr 27, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Shannon	30 min
Apr 27, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon	53 min
Apr 27, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon	45 min
Apr 27, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	32 min
Apr 27, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Oregon	14 min
Apr 27, 9:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Oregon	31 min
Apr 28, 10:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	McDonald	27 min
Apr 28, 10:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, McDonald, Newton	48 min
Apr 28, 11:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, Christian, Lawrence, Stone	39 min
Apr 28, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SGF	Christian, Dade, Greene, Lawrence, Polk	44 min
Apr 28, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barton, Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon	44 min
Apr 28, 11:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	24 min
Apr 28, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Laclede, Polk, Webster	32 min
Apr 28, 12:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Webster, Wright	24 min
Apr 28, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair	33 min
Apr 28, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barton, Dade, Jasper	58 min
Apr 28, 12:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Pulaski	37 min
Apr 28, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Hickory, Polk, Vernon	44 min
Apr 28, 12:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Laclede, Texas, Wright	58 min
Apr 28, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton	47 min
Apr 28, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Camden, Maries, Miller, Pulaski	47 min
Apr 28, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Dade, Greene, Lawrence, Polk, Stone	55 min
Apr 28, 1:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Greene	6 hr
Apr 28, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Polk, Vernon	45 min
Apr 28, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	40 min
Apr 28, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald, Newton	42 min
Apr 28, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon	40 min
Apr 28, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Morgan	32 min
Apr 28, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Greene, Webster	63 min
Apr 28, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Stone	39 min
Apr 28, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	St. Clair	48 min
Apr 28, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	68 min
Apr 28, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Wright	56 min
Apr 28, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller, Morgan	15 min
Apr 28, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Howell	53 min
Apr 28, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark, Taney	16 min
Apr 28, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Greene	23 min
Apr 28, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell, Oregon	45 min
Apr 28, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Oregon, Shannon	48 min
Apr 28, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	31 min
Apr 28, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	37 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.