1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Oct 13, 7:37 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 837 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2003 .DISCUSSION... ...MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE DISCUSSION... ISALLOBARIC ANALYSIS INDICATES VERY STRONG PRESSURE RISE/FALL COUPLET HAS DEVELOPED WITHIN THE PAST 3 HOURS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INTO WRN MO...WITH WIND GUSTS OVER 40 KNOTS NOTED AT SEVERAL REPORTING STATIONS AROUND WICHITA. AS A RESULT...SURFACE COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO ACCELERATE EASTWARD...WITH CONVECTIVE LINE QUICKLY OVERTAKING MUCH WEAKER ACTIVITY ALONG PREFRONTRAL TROUGH...NOW ENTERING FAR WRN CWA. 00Z KSGF SOUNDING SHOWS SIGNIFICANT MOISTENING OF THE ENTIRE COLUMN SINCE 12Z...NOT A SURPRISE GIVEN DEGREE OF MOISTURE ADVECTION DURING THE DAY. HOWEVER...A PRONOUNCED CAPPING INVERSION IS QUITE EVIDENT AT 840MB...WITH ONLY MARGINAL LAPSE RATES ABOVE SUPPORTING MLCAPES OF ONLY A FEW HUNDRED J/KG. DESPITE THIS...MODIFICATION OF BOUNDARY LAYER FOR T/TD NUMBERS IN WARM SECTOR OVER WRN MO/SE KS APPEARS BE SUFFICIENT FOR STORMS TO BECOME ROOTED IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER. THEREFORE...INTENSIFICATION TRENDS NOTED RECENTLY OVER SE KS/N CENTRAL OK WILL LIKELY CONTINUE...ESPECIALLY GIVEN RECENT INCREASE IN LOW LEVEL FORCING AND APPROACH OF 140KT UPPER JET STREAK. NEODESHA KANSAS PROFILER SHOWS STRONG UNIDIRECTIONAL DEEP LAYER SHEAR MORE THAN SUPPORTIVE OF DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS WITH EMBEDDED BOW SEGMENTS. AS MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW REMAINS BACKED OVER THE OZARKS DUE TO A COMBINATION OF STRONG PRESSURE FALLS AND TERRAIN INDUCED FLOW. AS A RESULT...IF SURFACE BASED CONVECTION CAN SUSTAIN ITSELF INTO THE OZARKS...TORNADIC THREAT CANNOT BE RULED OUT. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT AT LEAST ONE CELL OVER OSAGE COUNTY OK HAS EXHIBITED SUPERCELL CHARACTERISTICS WITH STRONG DEVIANT MOTION. && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. BOOKBINDER
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-141100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 556 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI BETWEEN 7 AND 8 PM...AND OVERSPREAD THE REMAINDER OF THE OZARKS REGION THROUGH THE LATE EVENING HOURS. DISCUSSION: A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WAS CONTINUING TO STRENGTHEN LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AS VERY STRONG JET STREAM WINDS WERE PUSHING OVER THE ROCKIES. MEANWHILE...A WARM FRONT WAS SLOWLY LIFTING NORTHWARD ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI...WITH CLEARING SKIES AND INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE NOTED ACROSS THIS REGION UNDER BREEZY SOUTH WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO QUICKLY INTENSIFY EARLY THIS EVENING ALONG A PREFRONTAL TROUGH OVER EASTERN KANSAS. A NUMBER OF THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE AS THEY MOVE INTO MUCH GREATER INSTABILITY THAT NOW EXISTS OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND FAR WESTERN MISSOURI. COLD AIR AND VERY STRONG WINDS ALOFT WILL ALLOW THE STRONGEST STORMS TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AS THEY ENTER THE OZARKS REGION THIS EVENING. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXIST DURING THE EVENING HOURS...ESPECIALLY WEST OF ROUTE 65. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 11 PM FOR AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF AN OSCEOLA TO ANDERSON LINE...INCLUDING JOPLIN...NEVADA...FORT SCOTT AND COLUMBUS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED ACROSS WESTERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AFTER 7 PM. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF BOOKBINDER
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ066-067-077-078-088-093-101-140400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 516 PM CDT MON OCT 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 937...IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN MISSOURI: BARTON...CEDAR...JASPER...MCDONALD...NEWTON...ST. CLAIR AND VERNON. IN KANSAS: BOURBON...CHEROKEE AND CRAWFORD. SOME CITIES IN THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDE FORT SCOTT... JOPLIN...NEOSHO...NEVADA...PITTSBURG AND STOCKTON. && A WARM FRONT WAS SLOWLY LIFTING NORTHEAST ACROSS FAR WESTERN MISSOURI LATE THIS AFTERNOON. SKIES HAD BECOME PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY ACROSS THE WATCH AREA...WITH DEWPOINTS RISING STEADILY UNDER BREEZY SOUTH WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT IN THE NEXT ONE TO THREE HOURS...AND REACH WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE WATCH AREA BETWEEN 7 AND 8 PM. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER MAY NOT BE IMMINENT...PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BOOKBINDER
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:45 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement officials observed a few trees downed from thunderstorm wind gusts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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