Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Springfield, MO

Issued

Nov 6, 1996, 11:25 PM CST (05:25 UTC)

Expired

Nov 7, 1996, 2:30 AM CST

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Springfield, MO

Area

Whole counties

County McDonald County, MO

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KSGF 070526
FFWSGF
MOC169-161-009-043-059-077-105-109-119-209-225-070830-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1125 PM CST WED NOV 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...PULASKI COUNTY
 
IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI
 
   ...PHELPS COUNTY
 
IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
 
   ...BARRY COUNTY...CHRISTIAN COUNTY...DALLAS COUNTY
   ...GREENE COUNTY...LACLEDE COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY...MCDONALD COUNTY
   ...STONE COUNTY...WEBSTER COUNTY
 
AT 1115 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING A LARGE AREA OF
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM ROLLA TO SPRINGFIELD
TO PINEVILLE. THIS AREA WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 1/2 INCH TO 1 1/4
INCHES HAD FALLEN BETWEEN 8PM AND 11PM ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.  THIS
RAINFALL HAS FALLEN ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND FROM EARLIER RAINFALL
AND WAS CAUSING RUNOFF AND NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING.
 
RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER THESE AREAS DURING THE NEXT
SEVERAL HOURS AND THE RUNOFF CONDITIONS AND FLASH FLOODING CAN BE
EXPECTED.
 
SEVERAL AREAS HAVE WATER COVERING THE ROADWAYS AND ARE CLOSED.  SOME OF
THESE ARE...
 
IN LAWRENCE COUNTY...MISSOURI 97 AT THE SPRING RIVER...FARM
ROAD 1100 2 MILES SOUTH OF THE RESEARCH CENTER....AND FARM ROAD 2150 1/8
OF A MILE EAST OF HIGHWAY H.
 
LACLEDE COUNTY SHERIFF WAS REPORTING MANY ROADS ABOUT TO GO UNDER WATER.
 
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.
 
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.
 
 
LINDENBERG/GAEDE
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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.