Hail, Polk
- When
- July 5, 1:30 AM CST
- Where
- Polk County, Humansville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 37.800, -93.583
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 4, 1:16 PM CST, 12 hours 14 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 216 PM CDT WED JUL 4 2001 MAIN FOCUS WILL BE WITH PRECIPITATION CHANCES IN THE FIRST 2 PERIODS...THEN SHIFTING TO TEMPERATURES. MCS PUSHED THROUGH THE CWA THIS MORNING WITH OUTFLOW BOUNDARY PUSHING WELL INTO ARKANSAS. THIS BOUNDARY HAS DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS DOWN IN ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. NOT MUCH HAPPENING YET ACROSS CWA IN THE WAKE OF THIS SYSTEM...DESPITE TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOW 90S WITH DEW POINTS FROM THE UPPER 60S TO LOW 70S. MAY SEE SOME LATE AFTERNOON DEVELOPMENT BUT WILL LIMIT POPS TO 30 ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN MO AND INTO SE KS. MAIN ACTION SHOULD SET UP TONIGHT ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS OF NEBRASKA/WYOMING AS SHORTWAVE DROPS INTO THETA E RIDGE AND AREA OF HIGH INSTABLITY. WILL LIKELY SEE ANOTHER MCS DEVELOP THERE... PROPAGATING SE AND INTO SE KS/SW MO TOWARDS 12Z. WILL CONTINUE 30 POPS IN SE KS/SW MO FOR LATE TONIGHT...INCREASING TO 50 PERCENT DURING THE MORNING. NORTHEAST CWA LOOKS TO REMAIN DRY. MAY ALSO SEE SOME AFTERNOON DEVELOPMENT ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM MCS. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BECOMES MORE ESTABLISHED OVER THE AREA BY FRIDAY AND THEN INTO THE WEEKEND. WITH VERY WARM 850 TEMPS NUDGING INTO THE AREA AND 700 MB TEMPS OF 12 TO 14 DEGREES...SHOULD SEE HOT AND DRY WEATHER SETTING UP. FUTURE SHIFTS MAY NEED TO START CONSIDERING HEAT ADVISORY. PRELIMINARY CCF: FCSTID = 05 SGF 70 87 69 90 / 30 30 0 10 JLN 71 89 71 93 / 30 50 0 10 UNO 70 90 68 91 / 30 30 0 10 VIH 68 88 68 89 / 20 20 0 10 LINDENBERG
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:32 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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