Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 1998, 10:03 PM CDT for Maries County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 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, 10:03 PM CDT (03:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1998, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 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 03:07 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, 3.1 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
- 185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 438 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSGF 050304 FFWSGF MOC015-029-125-131-141-050900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1003 PM CDT THU JUN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI CAMDEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI MARIES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI MILLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 400 AM CDT * AT 1000 PM LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO REPORT FLOODING ACROSS THE WARNING AREA. THIS EXTENDS THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THESE COUNTIES. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ST. CLAIR COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1000 PM. * HEAVY RAINFALL OF 2 TO 5 INCHES ACROSS THE WARNING AREA EARLIER TODAY AND THIS EVENING CONTINUES TO RUN OFF INTO LOW LYING AREAS. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS OVER...THE RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS UNTIL 4 AM. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTINUES TO REPORT FLOODING OF SECONDARY ROADS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN THE WARNING AREA. NO STATE HIGHWAYS ARE REPORTED UNDER WATER AT THIS TIME. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY |FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. DSA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Texas | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Shannon | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 8:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dent, Shannon | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 10:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Miller, Morgan | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Texas | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 11:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas | 34 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.