Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 1993, 3:57 PM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1993, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1993, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, MO, Newton County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1843 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What 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, Jul 7, 10:13 AM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-021-071630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1010 AM CDT WED JUL 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE RETURNING TO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE ONCE AGAIN INVADING SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. AT 1005 AM THE STORMS WERE LOCATED WEST OF A LINE FROM BOLIVAR TO NEAR NEOSHO. THE HEAVIES RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS THE TOWNS OF CARTHAGE AND NEOSHO BY 11 AM AS THE STORMS MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCAL FLOODING AND PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BAREIS
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 11:22 AM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
MOZ015-016-019-020-021-071800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1120 AM CDT WED JUL 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVERSPREADING THE WESTERN OZARKS...WITH THE LEADING EDGE OF THE HEAVIEST SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST TO JUST WEST OF SPRINGFIELD...THEN TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF JOPLIN. THE PRECIPITATION IS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERAL PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS... WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN LIKELY. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCAL FLOODING AND PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SIMKULET
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 1:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 4 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.