Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 1995, 11:32 AM CDT for Howell County, Oregon County, Shannon County, Missouri. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1995, 11:32 AM CDT (16:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1995, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Howell County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Shannon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 2558 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 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 071635 FFWSGF MOC091-149-203-071830- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1132 AM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI ...NORTHEASTERN HOWELL COUNTY...OREGON COUNTY...SHANNON COUNTY AT 1130 AM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM SUMMERSVILLE TO BIRCH TREE TO ALTON. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WILL BE AFFECTING BIRCH TREE...THOMASVILLE...AND WILDERNESS. SINCE 830 AM...OVER FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE MOUNTAIN VIEW AREA PRODUCING LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND RESIDENCES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 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. GORDON/GAEDE &
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, Aug 7, 5:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
MOZ079>081-091-071150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 548 AM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO POLK AND DALLAS COUNTIES... AT 546 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD WAS SHOWING AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHERN POLK AND DALLAS COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINS ALONG WITH POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF URBANA...PUMPKIN CENTER...LOUISBURG AND POLK THROUGH 630 AM AND THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. LINDENBERG
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:49 AM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
MOZ079>081-091-071150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 548 AM CDT MON AUG 7 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO POLK AND DALLAS COUNTIES... AT 546 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD WAS SHOWING AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHERN POLK AND DALLAS COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINS ALONG WITH POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTdORMS WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF URBANA...PUMPKIN CENTER...LOUISBURG AND POLK THROUGH 630 AM AND THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. LINDENBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 6:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas, Wright | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Wright | 47 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.