Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Springfield, MO

Issued

Aug 7, 1996, 11:34 PM CDT (04:34 UTC)

Expired

Aug 8, 1996, 3:30 AM CDT

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Springfield, MO

Area

Whole counties

County Barry County, MO

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 080434
FFWSGF
MOC009-080830-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1134 PM CDT WED AUG 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...BARRY COUNTY
 
AT 1130 PM CDT RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD INDICATED A DEVELOPING AREA OF
THUNDERSTORMS OVER BARRY COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE
EAST AT NEAR 10 MPH AND WERE ALSO REDEVELOPING TO THE WEST. RAINFALL
AMOUNTS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
 
PERSONS LIVING ALONG RIVERS AND CREEKS IN BARRY COUNTY SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND QUICKLY SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP...
ESPECIALLY ALONG FLAT CREEK AND ROARING RIVER. CAMPERS AT ROARING RIVER
STATE PARK SHOULD ALSO SEEK 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.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSvS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER
TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
 
MS

NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 7, 3:33 PM CDT, 8 hours 1 minute earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
335 PM CDT WED AUG 7 1996

RAIN CHANCES TONIGHT AND THU MAIN CHALLENGE THIS PERIOD.

COLD FRONT AT 19Z EXTENDED FROM UIN-MKC-ICT INTO TX PNHDL WITH A BAND
OF TSTMS FROM IRK TO MKC WITHIN BEST MCON AS SEEN ON ADAP. THE TSTMS
THAT HAD DVLPD EARLIER THIS AFTN OVER SRN MO ALONG AND AHEAD OF OLD
OUTFLOW HAVE EITHER DISSIPATED OR MOVED SOUTH INTO AR.

WTR VPR LOOP FULL OF INFORMATION WITH MSTR PLUME EXTENDING ALNG FRNT
FROM NM TO MN...AND UPR RIDGE BEGINNING TO REBUILD TO THE WEST OVER SRN
PLAINS AS SHRTWV MOVG THROUGH MN ARROWHEAD.  MDLS SIMILIAR WITH MN
SHRTWV DIGGING TROF OVER NE US AND RIDGE BUILDING BACK ACROSS THE WEST.
THEY DO HAVE TIMING DIFFERENCES THOUGH IN SHORT TERM WITH ETA/AVN MOVG
FRNT THROUGH QUICKER INTO AR BY MORNING.  ETA ALSO MAINTAINS SOME PVA
INTO THE DAY ON THU.  ATTM FAVOR A SOLN OF FRONT PIVOTING QUICKER OVER
NRN MO WITH FRONT SLOWING OVER OK.  THIS WL BRING FROPA TO JLN TOWARDS
MIDNIGHT AND TO SGF TOWARDS MORNING...BUT THEN SLOW FROPA TIL AFTN
ACROSS SCNTRL MO.

WHILE DYNAMICS WEAK THIS FAR SOUTH FEEL MCON AND ENOUGH LIFT TO CONT
SCT TSTMS INTO CNTRL/SW MO TONIGHT...THEN CONT MENTION OF SHWRS FOR
JLN/SGF AREA THROUGH THU MORNING...AND TSTMS FOR SCNTRL MO ON THU.

SGF WU 070/088 064/088 063 03331
JLN BU 070/089 064/090 064 03321

RUNNELS

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.