Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 1993, 11:53 AM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1993, 11:53 AM CDT (16:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1993, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 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, 4.9 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSGF 071653
FFWSGF
MOC119-145-097-072100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1153 AM CDT WED JUL 7 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF MISSOURI
MCDONALD...NEWTON...JASPER
AT 1145 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING
INTO THE JOPLIN NEOSHO PINEVILLE VICINITIES. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL
CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS THE RAIN
FALLS OVER SATURATED GROUND.
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 7, 10:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 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, 31 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, 3:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.