A brief EF-0 tornado touched down near the community of Cabool. A few low topped supercells developed within a low cape and low sheared environment.
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A brief EF-0 tornado touched down near the community of Cabool. A few low topped supercells developed within a low cape and low sheared environment. Enhanced low level helicities existed across southern Missouri as cloud cover created differential heating.
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 Sep 11, 2:06 PM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 306 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008 .DISCUSSION... SHORT TERM (THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING)... THE BEGINNING OF A WET WEEKEND IS UNDERWAY AS ONGOING RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH WARM AIR AND MOISTURE ADVECTION FROM THE SOUTH WILL CONTINUE TO PUMP FUEL FOR RAINFALL INTO THE REGION. IN ADDITION TO THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE MOVING INTO THE REGION...A NICE TROPICAL FEED OF MOISTURE IN THE SOUTHWEST FLOW FROM LOWELL...IS CONTINUING TO BRING RELETIVELY DEEP MOISTURE INTO THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY AS WELL. PLENTY OF MOISTURE AND DECIENT ISENTROPIC LIFT WITH CONDENSATION PRESSURE DEFICITS LESS THAN 20MB ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD KEEP THE RAINFALL MACHINE RUNNING INTO FRIDAY. WHILE NOT EXPECTING ANY HEAVY RAINFALL INTO FRIDAY...THIS WILL ONLY HELP TO SET THE STAGE FOR THE WEEKENDS RAIN BY SATURATING ALREADY WET GROUND. HATCH LONG TERM (FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)... THE MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS INCLUDE JUST HOW MUCH RAIN WILL FALL AND OVER WHAT TIME PERIOD AS A COLD FRONT AND HURRICANE REMNANTS WILL BOTH AFFECT THE CWA. EXPECT THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO REMAIN NORTHWEST OF THE CWA THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY. THIS FRONT HAS AMPLE MOISTURE AND LIFT TO WORK WITH AND WILL PRODUCE SOME VERY HEFTY RAINS. WHILE ITS CURRENT POSITION IS PROVIDING SOME DECENT RAIN TO PORTIONS OF THE CWA...EXPECT THAT THE APPROACHING SHORT WAVE TROUGH FROM THE WEST AS WELL AS THE EFFECTS OF HURRICANE IKE WILL ACT TO ACTUALLY PULL THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND MUCH OF ITS ASSOCIATED PRECIP FURTHER NORTH. THUS HAVE LOWERED POPS AND QPF AMOUNTS FOR MUCH OF THE CWA THROUGH SAT MORNING. EVEN WITHOUT THE DIRECT FRONTAL INFLUENCE...MAY HAVE TO WATCH FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT FRIDAY AFTERNOON AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE MID 80S. WE MAY BECOME UNSTABLE ENOUGH TO SET A FEW STORMS OFF WAY OUT AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY ITSELF. A SECONDARY SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS ON SATURDAY...HELPING TO PROPEL THE COLD FRONT TO THE SOUTH. THIS WILL ESSENTIALLY BRING THE PRECIPITATION ALONG WITH IT. AS THE FRONT WORKS SOUTH...IT WILL HAVE AN INCREASINGLY TROPICAL AIRMASS TO WORK WITH AS THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE IKE MOVE UP INTO THE REGION. EXPECT WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS SYSTEM... PARTICULARLY BETWEEN 06Z SUNDAY AND 00Z MONDAY. THE SYSTEM SHOULD BE ACCELERATING AND SCOOT ON OUT BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. DESPITE THE ACCELERATION...RAINFALL RATES WILL BE QUITE HIGH AND AM A EXPECTING WIDESPREAD 4 TO 7 INCHES OF RAIN WITH MAXIMUM RATES APPROACHING 3 INCHES PER 6 HOURS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE QUITE COOL IN THE WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT...BUT DRY WEATHER LOOKS TO RETURN FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. TEMPERATURES ON TUESDAY ARE OF PARTICULAR CONCERN AS THEY MAY DROP SUBSTANTIALLY DEPENDING ON THE OVERALL TIMING AND STRENGTH OF AN AREA OF SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN. BARJENBRUCH && .AVIATION... FOR THE 18Z TAFS...CURRENT AREA OF PRECIPITATION AND IFR NOW OVER THE JOPLIN TERMINAL AND WILL SLOWLY SPREAD TO THE NORTHEAST THROUGH THE EVENING. DOWNSTREAM OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT AND HAVE KEPT MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. WILL HAVE TO MONITOR OVERNIGHT CONDITIONS AS THERE MAY BE SOME BRIEF CLEARING OF THE LOW CEILINGS AFTER 12Z MAINLY FOR SPRINGFIELD. HATCH && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 430 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-122130- BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON- ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS- LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON- LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE- TANEY-OZARK-OREGON- 430 PM CDT THU SEP 11 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE MAY BE ABLE TO BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A ROLLA...TO OZARK...TO CASSVILLE LINE. ISOLATED TORNADOES...HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO DROP SOUTH AND STALL ACROSS CENTRAL MISSOURI ON FRIDAY. THIS STATIONARY FRONT WILL THEN BE THE FOCUS FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THOUGH WIDE SPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED ON FRIDAY...IF ENOUGH INSTABILITY CAN DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. HEAVY RAINFALL AND THE POTENTIAL OF FLOODING IS LIKELY THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK FOR MORE DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING ALONG AND SOUTH OF A ROLLA...TO OZARK...TO CASSVILLE LINE. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE) BARJENBRUCH
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:30 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-0 tornado briefly touched down in a rural area southwest of Cabool. The tornado impacted an open field and no damage occurred.
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