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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 1994, 4:11 PM CDT for Barton County, Dade County, Greene County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1994, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1994, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 062112 FFWSGF MOC011-057-077-217-070215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 411 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...BARTON COUNTY...DADE COUNTY...GREENE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI ...VERNON COUNTY RADAR AT 410 CONTINUES TO SHOW LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL...ON THE ORDER OF 2 TO 3 INCHES DURNING THE LAST 3 HOURS. THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN WILL SWELL CREEKS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREA QUICKLY. LOW WATER CROSSINGS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY AVOIDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT 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 Ad SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. NINE
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, May 6, 10:58 AM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
MOZ066-077>082-088>098-101>108-061745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1055 AM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT SHORTLY BEFORE 11 AM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF THE REGION. THEY WERE NORTH OF A LINE FROM LEBANON TO GREENFIELD TO JOPLIN. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS STILL IN KANSAS TO THE WEST OF LAMAR...GENERALLY IN THE AREA AROUND PITTSBURG...GIRARD AND PARSONS. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR FLASH FLOODING BEFORE 1 PM IS IN BARTON COUNTY AROUND LIBERAL...LAMAR AND GOLDEN CITY. PEOPLE IN THOSE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR ANY RAPID RISE ALONG SMALL STREAMS. ESPECIALLY AVOID DRIVING INTO WATER ACROSS ROADS THAT ARE NOT ABSOLUTLY FAMILIAR. NINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 65 min |
| May 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone | 65 min |
| May 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 65 min |
| May 6, 1:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Lawrence, Stone | 68 min |
| May 6, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Taney, Webster | 66 min |
| May 6, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone | 66 min |
| May 6, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 62 min |
| May 6, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Dade | 37 min |
| May 6, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Dade, Greene, Polk | 62 min |
| May 6, 4:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 5 hr |
| May 6, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Webster | 68 min |
| May 6, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence, Stone | 68 min |
| May 6, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar | 39 min |
| May 6, 6:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Webster, Wright | 4 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.