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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 357, NWS Springfield, MO

August 6, 2026Dallas County, Greene County, Polk County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2026, 2:17 PM CDT for Dallas County, Greene County, Polk 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: Aug 6, 2026, 2:17 PM CDT (19:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2026, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Polk County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 84 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: 1264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.4

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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 Aug 6, 11:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 11:46 AM CDT, 2 hours 31 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
Aug 6, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede, Webster	39 min
Aug 6, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Polk, Webster	50 min
Aug 6, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Lawrence	51 min
Aug 6, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Laclede, Webster, Wright	49 min
Aug 6, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Greene, Polk, Webster	47 min
Aug 6, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Greene, Webster, Wright	58 min
Aug 6, 4:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Greene, Webster	8 hr
Aug 6, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Ozark	49 min
Aug 6, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Stone, Taney	63 min
Aug 6, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon	48 min
Aug 6, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark	45 min
Aug 6, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Dade, Greene, Lawrence	42 min
Aug 6, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Taney	53 min
Aug 6, 5:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Greene, Ozark, Stone, Webster and 1 more	6 hr
Aug 6, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone	48 min
Aug 6, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Taney	25 min
Aug 6, 6:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SGF	Stone	31 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.