Welcome to the Missouri CoCoRaHS Network
**IMPORTANT: If you need to enter precipitation accumulated over a multi day period, please use the Multiday report. This will help us with quality control of the data.
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ATTENTION MISSOURI COCORAHS MEMBERS!!! Hail pads are now available!!! If you would like to have a hail pad for this severe weather season let the state coordinators know!!! Did I mention (Hail Pads Are FREE!!!) !!! Get your hail pad soon!!!
ATTENTION MISSOURI COCORAHS MEMBERS!!! If you have a hail pad, be sure to mark the location of where the pad is placed ex, 3 miles south east of "city". Be sure to mark your station ID on the hail pad report which can be found on the CoCoRaHS website! Always remember to anchor your hail pad, the last thing you want is your valuable hail information being carried away in the wind.
All Missouri CoCoRaHS Members:
Winter is just around the corner, even though the weather is beautiful now. Soon it will be time to measure snow. Remember, there are three ways one can measure snow.
1. Snow can be measured on a board that is well cited so that the snow is not windblown, but yet snowfall not shielded.
2. Snow can be measured by taking several readings from an area and averaging them.
3. Snow can be measured using the open rain gauge and taking the small cylinder out.
Snow should be melted down to produce a liquid equivalent. This can be done by melting the contents inside the gauge, or taking a "core" sample from the ground.
The snow can be melted next to a heat source, or one could "measure" hot water into the inner cylinder and melting the snow inside the large cylinder and then subtracting off the amount of hot water from the new total.
As always, we are grateful to Missouri CoCoRaHs observers for their diligent reporting.
Your CoCoRaHs coordinators,
Patrick Guinan
Tony Lupo
John Moon, and
David Snider
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Do you have a question about the CoCoRaHS network in Missouri? Send a question to the state and assistant state coordinators today!!!
==> Missouri CoCoRaHs observers: Please read. Your hard work in providing observations is appreciated. The National Weather Service likes having your measurements. Keep up the good work!
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NOUS43 KSGF 182110
PNSSGF
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
400 PM CDT THU SEP 18 2008
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI WILL BEGIN
ISSUING COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE RAIN...HAIL...AND SNOW (COCORAHS)
PRECIPITATION SUMMARIES STARTING THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 1 2008...
EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD
WILL BEGIN ISSUING COCORAHS DAILY PRECIPITATION SUMMARIES FOR THREE
COUNTIES IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND PARTS OF SOUTHWEST...SOUTH
CENTRAL...AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. THE TEXT PRODUCT WILL BE ISSUED AT
APPROXIMATELY 915 AM CDT/CST EACH DAY. COCORAHS PRECIPITATION
OBSERVATIONS ARE TAKEN BY AREA VOLUNTEERS. THE REPORTS WILL BE
SUPPLEMENTAL AND UNOFFICIAL OBSERVATIONS.
WMO HEADER: SXUS43 KSGF
AWIPS ID: STLLCOSGF
NWS SPRINGFIELD COCORAHS WEB PAGE:
WEB PAGE: HTTP:///WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF/?N=COCORAHS (ALL LOWER CASE
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To measure snowfall, you'll want to see the CoCoRaHs training slide show (see links to your left). In summary, you can measure snowfall by taking several measurements around your yard and averaging them. Ideally choose places that the wind does not unduly impact.
Make sure that before it snows, you remove the inner cylinder.
To get snowfall liquid, you can catch snow in the gauge or take a core sample. Then bring the snow in and melt it down in the gauge by setting next to a warm heater. Alternatively, one could take a set amount of hot water in your inner cylinder and pour it in the snow gauge. Then take the remaining water and measure this and subtract out the warm water you began with.
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Directions to MU:
From I-70, take exit 127 and follow rangeline south to business I-70. Take a left and then your first right onto College Ave. Follow this for about 1.5 miles south to the 5th traffic light. This is the corner of College and Rollins. Sanborn Field will be to your left. Take a right onto Rollins. The Anheuser Busch building is across the street from your first left (Virginia Ave).
From I-63, take the Stadium Ave exit west toward Columbia. Follow that to College Ave, College Ave will be to your right. Then follow this to the second light, and you'll be at the same intersection described in the above paragraph. Take a left onto Rollins.
State Coordinators
Patrick E. Guinan Anthony R. Lupo
Missouri State Climatologist Department of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science
Univ. of Missouri 302 E ABNR Building
Missouri Climate Center University of Missouri-Columbia
302 ABNR Bldg.
Columbia, MO 65211 Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: 573-882-5908 Phone: 573-884-1638
Fax: 573-884-5133 Fax: 573-884-5070
Email: GuinanP@missouri.edu Email: LupoA@missouri.edu
Assistant Coordinators
Southwest Missouri Eastern Missouri Central Missouri
Dave Snider Ben Miller and Karl Sieczynski John Moon III
Meteorologist, KY3 StormTeam National Weather Service Atmospheric Science
999 W. Sunshine St. STL - Weather Forecast Office 1-74 Agriculture Building
Springfield, MO 65807 12 Missouri Research Park Drive University of Missouri
Saint Louis, MO 63304 Columbia, MO 65211
Weather Center 417.268.3246 636-441-8467 573-884-1638
FAX 417.268.3364 573-884-5070
Email: dsnider@ky3.com Ben.Miller@noaa.gov jtmdzc@missouri.edu
Karl.Sieczynski@noaa.gov