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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1997, 2:14 PM CDT for Howell County, Shannon County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 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 28, 1997, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Howell County, MO, Shannon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2010 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 281915 FFWSGF MOC091-203-282315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 214 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 1997 * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR HOWELL COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI SHANNON COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * SOME AREAS OR STREAMS AFFECTED ALLEY SPRINGS AND EMINENCE IN SHANNON COUNTY WEST PLAINS...MOUNTAIN VIEW AND LANTON IN HOWELL COUNTY OZARK NATIONAL SCENIC RIVERWAYS * CAUSE AND EFFECT SPRINGFIELD DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD OCCURRED OVER SHANNON AND HOWELL COUNTIES SINCE NOON. THE RAIN TODAY FELL IN AREAS THAT RECEIVED ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN FRIDAY. * FORECAST CONDITIONS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS SHANNON AND HOWELL COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM...PRODUCING AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 36 min |
| Jun 27, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 7:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 7:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 4:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Miller, Morgan | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 4:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden | 5 hr |
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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.