Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 1993, 8:46 AM CDT for Barry County, McDonald County, Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1993, 8:46 AM CDT (13:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1993, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barry County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSGF 061346
FFWSGF
MOC009-119-145-209-061745-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
846 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
BARRY...MCDONALD...NEWTON...STONE
AT 840 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED RAIN CONTINUING OVER SOUTHWEST
MISSOURI WHERE RAINFALL OF 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD SATURATED THE
GROUND. STREAMS ARE AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE BANKFULL AND WILL RISE
RAPIDLY WITH THE ADDTIONAL RAINFALL.
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, Jul 6, 3:04 AM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
M0Z015-016-019-020-021-061000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 300 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 300 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...GENERALLY SOUTH OF LINE FROM 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD TO NEAR SPRINGFIELD TO JUST SOUTH OF JOPLIN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING SOUTH OF THE JOPLIN AREA IN NEWTON AND MCDONALD COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST THROUGH NEWTON AND MCDONALD COUNTIES INTO BARRY AND SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTIES BY 430 AM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE CREEK AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING OVER LOW WATER BRIDGES. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 8:21 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
M0Z015-016-019-020-021-061500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 815 AM CDT TUE JUL 6 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 815 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE CONTINUING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. MOST RAIN WAS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR ROLLA TO SPRINGFIELD...TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF JOPLIN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN THE SPRINGFIELD AREA. PRECIPITATION AMOUNT IN EXCESS OF OF 3 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED IN SOME AREAS OVERNIGHT...AND AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR TWO IS POSSIBLE THIS MORNING BEFORE SHOWERS SUBSIDE BY MID TO LATE MORNING. PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING OVER LOW WATER BRIDGES. SIMKULET
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry | 95 min |
| Jul 6, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Stone | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 63 min |
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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.