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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Springfield, MO

May 29, 2026Bourbon County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2026, 6:58 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. 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: May 29, 2026, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2026, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Bourbon County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 371 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: 823 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1007 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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 May 29, 6:43 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 6:43 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 2:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 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
May 29, 2:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Webster, Wright	6 hr
May 29, 5:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Christian, Dade, Greene, Polk, Stone	5 hr
May 29, 8:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Greene, Polk	3 hr
May 29, 9:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Ozark	3 hr
May 29, 2:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SGF	Cedar	8 hr

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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.