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Monthly Climate Summary - July 2013

National Weather Service, Springfield, MO

Overview

Normal Departure Maps

Records

Upcoming Normals

Monthly Climate Overview

July 2013 can generally be categorized with above normal precipitation for most of the area with the exception of portions of central Missouri and generally below normal temperatures throughout the region.

Here are some weather events that occurred during the month...

Weak tornado in east Springfield

EF-1 Tornado and Flash Flooding July 29th-30th

	Springfield	Joplin	West Plains	Vichy
Highest Temperature of the Month	95	98	94	94
Average High Temperature	86.8	89.2	85.6	84.3
Lowest Temperature of the Month	55	53	53	50
Average Low Temperature	66.6	66.7	63.2	63.3
Average Mean Temperature	76.7	77.9	74.2	73.8
Depart from Normal	-1.5	-2.3	-3.8	-3.5
Rank	47th coldest / 126	18th coldest / 83	4th coldest / 66	4th coldest / 66
Days with lows of 32 deg F or Lower	0	0	0	0
Days with lows of 0 deg F or Lower	0	0	0	0
Days with highs of 32 degrees or lower	0	0	0	0
Days with highs of 90 degrees or warmer	10	16	8	7

Precipitation (Inches)	6.33	3.08 (missing data)	6.12	3.60
Depart from Normal	+ 2.65	- 0.73	+ 2.57	-0.84
Rank	15th wettest / 126	49th driest / 100	13th wettest / 66	32nd wettest / 69
days of 0.01 or greater	10	9	8	10
days of 0.10 or greater	10	4	7	6
days of 0.50 or greater	3	2	3	3
days of 1.00 or greater	2	1	3	1
Monthly Snowfall	0.0

Monthly Climate Maps

July 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

July 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

July 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

July 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

Monthly Climate Records

List of July 2013 Records
Date	Station	Record
July 2	Joplin	Record low of 53 breaks old record of 55 set in 1959.
July 3	Joplin	Record low of 55 breaks old record of 57 set in 1968.
July 3	Vichy-Rolla	Record low of 54 breaks the old record of 55 set in 1968.
July 26	West Plains	A record low maximum temperature of 75 degrees breaks the old record of 77 set in 2004.
July 26	Vichy-Rolla	A record low maximum temperature of 71 degrees breaks the old record of 73 set in 1998.
July 28	Vichy-Rolla	A record low temperature of 50 degrees breaks the old record of 57 set in 2005.
	Joplin	A record low maximum temperature of 70 degrees breaks the old record of 77 set in 1981.
	West Plains	A record low maximum temperature of 73 degrees breaks the old record of 76 set in 2004.
July 29	Joplin	A record rainfall of 1.43 inches breaks the old record of 0.86 inches set in 1971.
July 30	West Plains	A record rainfall of 1.98 inches breaks the old record of 0.35 set in 2009.

Monthly Climate Normals

Normal Conditions for the Upcoming 3 Months
Springfield
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
August	89.0	66.6	3.55	0.0
September	80.3	57.7	4.61	0.0
October	69.0	46.5	3.59	0.0
Joplin
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
August	91.0	68.4	3.35	0.0
September	82.3	59.3	4.95	0.0
October	71.3	48.3	4.03	0.0
West Plains
	High	Low	Precip.
August	89.4	65.0	3.23
September	80.8	56.9	4.09
October	69.6	45.1	3.84
Vichy
	High	Low	Precip.
August	87.6	65.0	3.67
September	78.6	56.7	4.04
October	67.4	45.8	3.51