Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 1994, 6:52 PM CDT for Webster County, Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1994, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1994, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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 062353 FFWSGF MOC225-229-070400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 652 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ...WEBSTER COUNTY...WRIGHT COUNTY AT 645 PM RADAR SHOWS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO INVADE WEBSTER AND WRIGHT COUNTIES AND THERE ARE SEVERAL SPOTS WITH HIGH WATER THAT CONTINUED TO RISE AND MORE RAINFALL PROMISED. TROUBLE SPOTS WERE NEAR FORDLAND...SEYMOUR AND BETWEEN CEDAR GAP AND MANSFIELD. SATELLITE ESTIMATES ARE THAT 2.1 TO 2.7 INCHES OF RAIN FELL DURING A 4 HOUR PERIOD ENDING AT 6 PM FROM SPRINGFIELD EAST TO MOUNTAIN GROVE. THE SAME AREA HAD AROUND 1 INCH BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM CDT . A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CBREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. 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 | Barton, Dade, Greene | 5 hr |
| 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 |
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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.