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Flash Flood Warning 108, NWS Springfield, MO

June 13, 1999Barry County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1999, 2:19 PM CDT for Barry 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 13, 1999, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1999, 6:20 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Barry County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 21 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: 193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 13, 3:56 AM CDT, 10 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:56 AM CDT, 10 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-140000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
100 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 1999

THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS VALID FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE...

A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST MISSOURI TO CENTRAL OKLAHOMA.
AHEAD OF THIS FRONT THE AIR WAS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE OVER THE OZARKS THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THE BEST CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION WILL BE FROM SPRINGFIELD AND POINTS
EAST.  WITH RECENT HEAVY RAINS OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
MISSOURI...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LOCATIONS EAST OF A
WEST PLAINS TO ROLLA LINE FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD STAY BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. HOWEVER DUE TO
THE EXPECTED SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS...HEAVY RAINS PRODUCING
LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE.

SPOTTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY OR
TONIGHT.

SHUMWAY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 9:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper	4 hr
Jun 12, 11:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	4 hr
Jun 13, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	31 min
Jun 13, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar	51 min
Jun 13, 6:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry	3 hr
Jun 13, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	48 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1999 Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.