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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Springfield, MO

March 17, 1998Texas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Mar 17, 1998, 3:09 PM CST for Texas County, Missouri. It was in force for 111 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 17, 1998, 3:09 PM CST (21:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 17, 1998, 5:00 PM CST
In force
111 min
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Texas County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1998-03-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1998-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 224 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSGF 172111
FFWSGF
MOC215-172300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
309 PM CST TUE MAR 17 1998

* FLOOD WARNING FOR
  TEXAS COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 500 PM CST
 
* SOME AREAS OR STREAMS AFFECTED
  HIGHWAY F WEST OF ROUTE 63
  HIGHWAY M 4 MILES WEST OF ROUTE 32 AND 17
  BELL ROAD 1 MILE SOUTH OF ROUTE 17/32
  ANY LOW WATER BRIDGE CROSSING IN TEXAS COUNTY

* CAUSE AND EFFECT
  LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS PORTIONS OF
  NORTHERN AND EASTERN TEXAS COUNTY

* FORECAST CONDITIONS
  HALF AN INCH OF RAIN FELL BETWEEN ROBY AND SUCCESS BETWEEN
  130 AND 230 PM.  THIS IS FELL ON A FAIRLY
  SATURATED GROUND.  WITH ANOTHER QUARTER OF AN INCH OF RAIN
  LOCALIZED FLOODING IS EXPECTED...ESPECIALLY ON LOW WATER
  BRIDGE CROSSINGS.
 
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.

GORDON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 11:30 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningSGFHowell, Ozark4 hr
Mar 17, 3:35 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSGFHowell, Ozark2 hr
Mar 17, 4:14 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSGFMaries, Miller, Phelps, Pulaski6 hr
Mar 17, 4:14 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSGFDent6 hr
Mar 17, 4:49 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSGFShannon, Texas5 hr
Mar 17, 5:56 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSGFHowell4 hr

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.