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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Springfield, MO

August 16, 1996Bourbon County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 1996, 5:57 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 16, 1996, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Bourbon County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 16, 2:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
236 PM CDT FRI AUG 16 1996

PCPN CHANCES ARE THE MAIN PROBLEM FOR THIS FORECAST PACKAGE

LTST STLT AND 88D IMAGES INDICATE SVRL AREAS OF CONCERN THIS AFTN. 1ST
IS OVER NE KS/NW MO WHICH HAS CAUSED RW/TRW TO DVLP SINCE THIS AM. THIS
AREA WAS MOVG E. NEXT VORT MAX IS OVER ERN CO BUT NO PCPN ASSOCIATED
WITH THIS...YET. SCT TRW CONTD TO FORM THIS AFTN OVER SE KS/W CNTRL MO
IN DEEPEST RH AND AREA OF WARM THETA ADVECTION. EXPECT THIS TO CONT
THRU SUNSET AND THEN DECREASE SOMEWHAT WITH LOSS OF HTG. NOT LOOKING
FOR ANYTHING OVER ERN 2/3 OF CWA THRU MIDNIGHT WITH DRY RH PROFILE.

12Z MODELS TRY TO AGREE IN KEEPING H5 VORT OVER CNTRL PLAINS THRU FCST
PD. COMPARISON OF 12Z GRIDDED DATA WITH 15Z RUC INDICATES NGM CLOSEST
WITH PLACEMENT OF H5 VORT OVER SRN NE. BUT ERN CO VORT CLDS PICTURE. AT
ANY RATE...HVY RAIN EVENT ON TAP THIS WKND FOR ERN KS/WRN MO/NE OK AND
POSSIBLY NW AR AS H5 SYS SPINS ACRS CNTRL PLAINS AND RH INCREASES.
FOLLOWING NGM SOLN AS IT HAS BEST HANDLE ON H5 VORT POSITION ATTM.

HVY RAINFALL WILL BE MAIN THREAT OVER WKND...ALTHOUGH A FEW STORMS MAY
BECOME SVR. FFG VALUES RATHER HIGH SO FFA NOT NEEDED ATTM...BUT LATER
SHIFTS WILL NEED TO CONSIDER THIS ESPECIALLY OVER SE KS WHERE 2 TO 3
INCHES OF RAIN FELL THIS AM.

TEMPS WILL BE A PROBLEM IF WIDESPREAD RW/TRW DEVELOP: SOME AREAS WILL
NOT RISE OUT OF 70S IS THIS OCCURS. ATTM...LIKE 80-85 IN ALL ZONES.

RECOMMENDATIONS: WRKZFP LOOKS OKAY...BUT WOULD LIKE TO SPLIT SC MO INTO
SEPARATE GROUP AND WORD POPS IN SGF GROUP AS "AFTER MIDNIGHT" TNGT.
MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO WORD JLN AND LAKE OF THE OZARKS GROUPS AS
"MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT." O/W CAN'T ARGUE WITH THE REST OF THE FORECAST.

SGF TT 067/084 069/082 069 08466
JLN TT 068/082 069/083 069 08666

MS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	45 min
Aug 16, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.