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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 1992, 12:37 PM CDT for Cedar County, Dade County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1992, 12:37 PM CDT (17:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1992, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 76 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSGF 051737
FFWSGF
MOC039-057-052015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1237 PM CDT WED AUG 5 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
CEDAR...DADE
AT 1230 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED RAIN CONTINUING OVER THE STOCKTON
LAKE RECREATION AREA WHERE OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE
730 AM THIS MORNING.
CREEKS AND RIVERS WERE RISING RAPIDLY. RAINFALL HAD DECREASED
OVER POLK COUNTY AND WATER THERE HAD SUBSIDED AND THE FLASH FLOOD
WARNING FOR POLK COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
BAREISWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 7:29 AM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-021-051215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 725 AM CDT WED AUG 5 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS ARE BREAKING OUT OVER MUCH OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT SHORTLY AFTER 7 AM SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED OVER MUCH OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THE HEAVIEST OF THEM WERE ALONG A BAND FROM NEVADA TO FAIR PLAY TO REPUBLIC TO BULL SHOALS LAKE. THAT BAND OF SHOWERS SHOULD BE EXPECTED TO MOVE TO A URBANA-MARSHFIELD-AVA-GAINESVILLE LINE BY ABOUT 9 AM. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS WITH A THUNDERSTORM NEAR HURLEY AND THAT STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH OZARK TO THE FORDLAND AREA BY 9 AM. NINE
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 8:49 AM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-021-051530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT RANGE FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 845 AM CDT WED AUG 5 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS ABOUND ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS WITH ONLY BRIEF PERIODS BETWEEN SHOWERS. THE HEAVIEST OF THEM EXTENDED FROM SPRINGFIELD TO 70 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD NEAR LEBANON. NO SEVERE WEATNHER WAS EXPECTED FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS FOR A SHORT TIME WITH THE HEAVIER STORMS. BAREIS
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 9:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-021-051530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT RANGE FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 945 AM CDT WED AUG 5 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS ABOUND ACROSS SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. HEAVIEST THUNDERSHOWERS WERE TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF SPRINGFIELD. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE TOWNS OF LEBANON...HOUSTON...WEST PLAINS BY 10 AMX. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS EXPECTED FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS FOR A SHORT TIME WITH THE HEAVIER STORMS. NEARLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER STOCKTON LAKE SINCE 730 AM CDT THIS MORNING. BAREIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 10:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade, Polk | 3 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.