Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1998, 6:16 AM CDT for Maries 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 4, 1998, 6:16 AM CDT (11:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1998, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Maries County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 860 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 535 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 041117 FFWSGF MOC125-041530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 616 AM CDT THU JUN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MARIES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 1030 AM CDT * AT 613 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORM OVER MARIES COUNTY MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * TWO AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN MARIES COUNTY SINCE 300 AM AND AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 800 AM. FLOODING OF LOW AREAS...INCLUDING LOW WATER CROSSINGS...WILL DEVELOP. BECAUSE OF THE HILLY TERRAIN ACROSS THE OZARKS...THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. SUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Miller, Morgan | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Miller, Morgan | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Maries | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Maries, Miller | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Morgan | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 4:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Maries, Miller | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Laclede | 63 min |
Nearby
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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.