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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Springfield, MO

June 13, 1997Laclede County, Webster County, Wright County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1997, 7:04 AM CDT for Laclede County, Webster County, Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 1997, 7:04 AM CDT (12:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1997, 9:30 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

Counties Laclede County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 131205
FFWSGF
MOC105-225-229-131430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
704 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
  LACLEDE COUNTY - SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI
  WEBSTER COUNTY - SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI
  WRIGHT COUNTY - SOUTHWESTERN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 930 AM CDT
 
* SOME AREAS OR STREAMS AFFECTED
  LOW WATER CROSSINGS AROUND GROVESPRING INCLUDING HIGHWAY 5
  LOW WATER CROSSINGS AROUND ELDRIDGE AND FALCON
  LOW WATER CROSSINGS BETWEEN MARSHFIELD AND FORDLAND

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
  SPRINGFIELD RADAR ESTIMATES LOCALLY OVER AN INCH OF RAIN
  HAS FALLEN SINCE 6 AM ACROSS THE AREA.



* FORECAST CONDITIONS
  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL TAPER OFF BY 930 AM
  ACROSS THE AREA...BUT RUNOFF FROM THE EARLY
  MORNING RAIN WILL LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING.


 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 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.



RIDDLE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	63 min
Jun 13, 3:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	63 min
Jun 13, 4:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	63 min
Jun 13, 4:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	33 min
Jun 13, 4:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair	63 min
Jun 13, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	49 min
Jun 13, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence	63 min
Jun 13, 5:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	62 min
Jun 13, 5:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Webster	57 min
Jun 13, 5:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory, St. Clair	62 min
Jun 13, 5:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone, Taney	69 min
Jun 13, 6:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Wright	55 min
Jun 13, 6:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	57 min
Jun 13, 6:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	St. Clair	3 hr
Jun 13, 7:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Miller, Morgan	3 hr
Jun 13, 8:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dent, Shannon, Texas	2 hr
Jun 13, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon, Shannon	67 min
Jun 13, 5:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dent, Shannon	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1997 Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.