Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 28, 1994, 2:30 AM CDT for Barton County, Cedar County, Vernon County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 1994, 2:30 AM CDT (07:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1994, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 493 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 792 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 280730 FFWSGF MOC011-039-217-281330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 230 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...BARTON COUNTY...CEDAR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...VERNON COUNTY AT 220 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER VERNON...BARTON...AND CEDAR COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL...AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK OVER AN AREA ALREADY BEGINNING TO FLOOD. THREE OR MORE INCHES OF RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED BY 600 AM. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL SHOULD FLOOD SMALL STREAMS...CREEKS...DRAINAGE DITCHES AND SECONDARY ROADS. AT 215 AM...NEVADA POLICE REPORTED FLOODING HAD COVERED HIGHWAY 54 JUST WEST OF NEVADA MISSOURI. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LEE &
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, Apr 28, 1:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-280720- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 119 AM CDT THU APR 28 1994 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR VERNON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 345 AM CDT... AT 110 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN A CLUSTER OVER VERNON AND BARTON COUNTIES. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS AN AREA ALREADY IN A DANGEROUS FLOODING SITUATION. WEATHER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES IN THIS AREA HAS EXCEEDED 4 INCHES. ANOTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEBANON NEAR BENNETT SPRINGS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN BENNETT SPRINGS...LEBANON...SLEEPER AND DOVE SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. RESIDENTS OF VERNON COUNTY SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING TONIGHT...AS SOME SECONDARY ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS MAY BE COVERED BY FLOODWATERS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI UNTIL 500 AM. LEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Carter, Ripley | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Wright | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon, Shannon | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 11:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Carter, Ripley | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 55 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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.