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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 331

June 13, 202621 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2026, 8:56 PM CDT for 21 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2026, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2026, 1:39 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 21 counties

Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 10%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barton, Vernon	67 min
Jun 13, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Jasper	57 min
Jun 13, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	65 min
Jun 13, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair	53 min
Jun 13, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Jasper, Newton	66 min
Jun 13, 11:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Newton	6 hr
Jun 13, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SGF	Jasper, Newton	39 min
Jun 13, 11:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	32 min
Jun 13, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Jasper	45 min
Jun 13, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	McDonald	58 min
Jun 13, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, Dade, Lawrence	64 min
Jun 13, 11:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	51 min
Jun 13, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Dallas, Greene, Polk	58 min
Jun 13, 11:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence	28 min
Jun 13, 11:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Barry	36 min
Jun 13, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, Christian, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton and 2 more	62 min
Jun 14, 12:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Hickory, Polk, St. Clair	6 hr
Jun 14, 12:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dade	6 hr
Jun 14, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Lawrence, Stone, Taney	40 min
Jun 14, 12:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dallas	6 hr
Jun 14, 1:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Greene	6 hr
Jun 14, 1:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dallas	6 hr
Jun 14, 1:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Webster	6 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -243 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 318 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 8:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson and 2 more	115 min
Jun 13, 10:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Barton, Bates, Cedar, Dade, Greene and 8 more	116 min
Jun 13, 11:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, McDonald	2 hr

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.