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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Springfield, MO

May 6, 1994Douglas County, Webster County, Wright County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 1994, 7:50 PM CDT for Douglas County, Webster County, Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 1994, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1994, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Douglas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 926 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 312 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 497 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 070051
FFWSGF
MOC011-039-043-057-067-077-225-229-217-070645-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
750 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...BARTON COUNTY...CEDAR COUNTY...CHRISTIAN COUNTY
   ...DADE COUNTY...DOUGLAS COUNTY...GREENE COUNTY...WEBSTER COUNTY
   ...WRIGHT COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...VERNON COUNTY
 
RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
THAT ARE PRODUCING COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF WATER. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF
PLACES WHERE HIGH WATER IS ALREADY A PROBLEM AND MANY MORE AREAS WITH
THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING.
 
SOME LOCALITIES WITH HIGH WATER REPORTED THIS EVENING ARE NEAR FILLEY IN
CEDAR COUNTY...IN THE REPUBLIC AND SPRINGFIELD AREAS...AROUND OZARK AND
THE AREA BETWEEN SEYMOUR AND MANSFIELD IN THE WEBSTER-WRIGHT COUNTY
REGION.
 
SATELLITE RAINFALL ESTIMATES THAT NEARLY 4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL
BETWEEN 4 AND 7 PM THIS EVENING IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE6
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
 
NINE
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone	57 min
May 6, 7:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Vernon	6 hr
May 6, 7:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Dade, Greene	6 hr
May 6, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	30 min
May 7, 12:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	57 min
May 7, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, McDonald, Newton	50 min
May 7, 1:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Polk, Vernon	5 hr
May 7, 1:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Webster	5 hr
May 7, 1:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Wright	5 hr
May 7, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	47 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.