Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Springfield, MO

Issued

Nov 7, 1996, 3:48 AM CST (09:48 UTC)

Expired

Nov 7, 1996, 7:45 AM CST

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Springfield, MO

Area

Whole counties

Counties Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Texas County, MO, Wright County, MO

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KSGF 071015 COR
FFWSGF
MOC091-215-067-153-229-071345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED TO MAKE FLOOD WARNING.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
348 AM CST THU NOV 7 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

   ...HOWELL COUNTY...TEXAS COUNTY

IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

   ...DOUGLAS COUNTY...OZARK COUNTY...WRIGHT COUNTY

AT 345AM...RADAR WAS STILL INDICATING HEAVY RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. OZARK COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED THAT WATER
ROSE 2 FEET IN ONE HOUR OVER A LOW WATER BRIDGE ON N HIGHWAY OVER BRYANT
CREEK NEAR SYCAMORE IN EASTERN OZARK COUNTY.

HEAVY RAIN OF UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO
INTO MID-MORNING.

MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.


SHUMWAY

NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Nov 7, 2:25 AM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
230 AM CST THU NOV 07 1996

1ST PD FCST PROBLEMS...WHEN PCPN WL END/CLDS BREAK UP/TEMPS.

06Z SFC MAP HAS CDFNT MOVG INTO SERN MO WITH GD POOLING OF DEWPOINTS
ALONG AND JUST BEHIND FNT.  SGF 88D SHOWS BACK EDGE OF THE PCPN FROM
EXTREME SW MO THRU SGF AND INTO LEBANON. AREA LOOKS TO BE DECREASING
IN AREAL COVERAGE ATTM.  AS PCPN MOVES INTO ERN CWA...FFG IS ARND 3-4
INCHES.

SGF BROKE A DAILY RA FALL RECORD ON NOV 6TH WITH 2.92 INCHES...WHICH
SHATTERED THE OLD RECORD OF 1.03 IN 1946.  PCPN NOW ALL MOVG INTO OH
VALLEY BY TONIGHT.  CAN DROP FFA FOR ALL CWA...EXTREME ZONES MIGHT
MENTION HEAVY RA POSSIBLE AT TIMES.

MODELS ALL SHOW BIG TIME DRYING AND SUBSIDENCE BEHIND FNT WITH UPPER
LVL TROF MOVG INTO OH VALLEY BY END OF FCST PD AND LARGE RIDGE PUTTING
CWA IN NW FLOW.
TEMPS...LOOKG AT MAX TEMPS UPSTREAM IN NB...THINK FWC A LITTLE TO HIGH
WL LEAN TOWARD THE FAN.

1ST PD RECOMMENDATION...

SKIES....SE KS PC/JLN MORNING CLDS DECREASING BY LATE MORNING.
         SGF/AIZ CLDY WITH DECREASING CLDS BY LATE AFTN.
         UNO CLDY/MC ALL PD.
WNDS.....NW 10 TO 15 MPH.
POPS.....NONE IN SE KS...20 FOR MORNING FOR JLN...TSJRA/SHRA LIKELY UNTIL
         MID MORNING FOR SGF/AIZ...EARLY AFTN FOR UNO.
TEMPS....NR 60 SE KS/JLN...LO/MID 50S FOR SGF/AIZ...LO 50S UNO.

SGF EB 053/033 050/029 060 0762-
JLN BB 058/035 054/032 063 0721-

SS

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.