Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 1995, 5:27 AM CDT for Carter County, Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1995, 5:27 AM CDT (10:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1995, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carter County, MO, Ripley County, MO
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 984 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 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 081029 FFWSGF MOC035-181-081330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 527 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...CARTER COUNTY...RIPLEY COUNTY AT 527 AM...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER ALL OF CARTER AND RIPLEY COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR FROM NEAR VAN BUREN TO DONIPHAN. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL 830 AM. THIS WILL RAISE WATER LEVELS IN CREEKS AND RIVERS AND SOME FLOODING IS LIKELY. ALSO...LOW WATER CROSSINGS ARE VULNERABLE TO FLOODING. PERSONS CAMPING NEAR RIVERS AND STREAMS NEED TO BE EXTRA CAREFUL AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. 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. RIDDLE
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, Jul 8, 2:54 AM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
MOZ081-082-092-097-098-081200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 255 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 251 AM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES EAST OF LEBANON TO FORT LEONARD WOOD TO NEAR ROLLA. WHILE THESE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED OVER THE PAST HOUR...THEY ARE STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT TEXAS AND SHANNON COUNTIES BETWEEN 3 AND 4 AM. HEAVY RAIN CAUSING LOW LAND FLOODING IS THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS. PERSON IN LICKING...HOUSTON...AND EMINENCE SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND PERSONS LIVING NEAR CREEKS AND IN LOW LAND AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND. RIDDLE
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
MOZ081-082-092-097-098-081200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 255 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 251 AM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES EAST OF LEBANON TO FORT LEONARD WOOD TO NEAR ROLLA. WHILE THESE STORMS HAVE WEAKENED OVER THE PAST HOUR...THEY ARE STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT TEXAS AND SHANNON COUNTIES BETWEEN 3 AND 4 AM. HEAVY RAIN CAUSING LOW LAND FLOODING IS THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS. PERSON IN LICKING...HOUSTON...AND EMINENCE SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND PERSONS LIVING NEAR CREEKS AND IN LOW LAND AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND. RIDDLE
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:27 AM CDT, 2 hours before
MOZ081-092-097-098-106>108-081130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 327 AM CDT SAT JUL 8 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI... AT 322 AM...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PUSHING INTO SHANNON AND TEXAS COUNTIES. THE LEADING EDGE WAS FROM JUST NORTH OF ROUND SPRING WEST TO NEAR HOUSTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 30 MPH AND WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF TEXAS AND SHANNON COUNTIES AND REACH THE WILLOW SPRINGS TO VAN BUREN LINE BY AROUND 4 AM. THE STORMS WILL THEN REACH THE WEST PLAIN TO DONIPHAN AREA BY 430 AM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LAND AREAS AND SMALL RIVERS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RISING WATER. CAMPERS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT AT NIGHT. RIDDLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Carter | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Shannon | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 4:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Carter | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 4:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ripley | 42 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.