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Flash Flood Warning 141, NWS Springfield, MO

December 4, 1999Dade County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Dec 4, 1999, 1:44 AM CST for Dade County, Missouri. It was in force for 3 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: Dec 4, 1999, 1:44 AM CST (07:44 UTC)
Expired: Dec 4, 1999, 4:45 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Dade County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1329 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 Dec 3, 3:30 PM CST, 10 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 3:30 PM CST, 10 hours 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
330 PM CST FRI DEC 3 1999

1ST PD CONCERNS...WHEN TO START THE PCPN.
REST OF FCST...POSSIBLE RA/SN MIX SUNDAY NIGHT AND TEMPS.

SFC MAP SHOW CDFNT FROM WRN OK TO NE KS...50/60 DEWPOINTS OVR MOST OF
ERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL MO.  STLT SHOWS CLEAR SKIES OVR MOST OF CWA
WITH CLOUDS DECREASING OVR S CENTRAL MO. WATER VAPOR SHOWS NEXT SHORT
WAVE SPINNING OVR SW US.

WENT WITH THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AVN MODEL FOR ENTIRE FCST INCLUDING
EXTENDED.  LOOKS MOST OF THE ACTION WILL BEGIN AROUND SUNRISE OVER
WRN ZONES BUT WENT AHEAD AND OUT A 40 POP ACROSS CWA...JUST IN CASE.
THEN HIT THE SHRA/TSRA BIG TIME ON SATURDAY. CAPES LOOKS A LOT BETTER
TONIGHT THAN LAST NIGHT FOR TSRA ACTIVITY. SATURDAY LOOKS LIKE MO/AR
BORDER WILL BE THE BEST CHC OF CONVECTION...MAYBE SOME SEVERE.  REST
OF CWA COULD SEE ELEVATED THUNDER SATURDAY...SHOULD NOT BE SEVERE.

SUNDAY IS WHEN CDFNT GOES THRU CWA...TEMPS WILL SLOWLY FALL IN THE
WRN ZONES AND HOLD STEADY OR VERY LITTLE TEMPS CHANGE ELSE WHERE...WL
WORD ACCORDINGLY IN ZONES.  ALSO THREW IN A LOW POP DUE TO HIGH RH
AND COLD AIR MIGHT SQUEEZE SPRINKLES OR -RA/DZ BUT DONT EXPECT ANY
SIGNIFICANT PCPN.

EXTENDED...AVN SHOW 8H TEMPS BELOW 0C AND WITH 70/80 RH COULD SEE A
RA/SN MIX BEFORE ENDING EARLY MONDAY MORNING. ALSO 100-500 THICKNESS
IS KIND OF LEADING TO A POSSIBLE MIX. AGAIN SHOULD NOT AMOUNT TO ANY
ACCUMULATIONS...IF ANYTHING AT ALL.

SGF WC 051/058 043/045 026 074974
JLN WC 053/060 041/044 025 074974
UNO WW 052/060 044/049 027 074975
VIH WC 050/059 042/047 025 074974

.SGF...NONE.

SS

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 3, 8:36 PM CST, 5 hours 8 minutes before

KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>056-066>069-077>080-088>091-093>095-101>
104-040800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
836 PM CST FRI DEC 3 1999

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...

BARRY...                BARTON...                BENTON...
BOURBON...              CAMDEN...                CEDAR...
CHEROKEE...             CHRISTIAN...             CRAWFORD...
DADE...                 DALLAS...                GREENE...
HICKORY...              JASPER...                LAWRENCE...
MCDONALD...             MORGAN...                NEWTON...
POLK...                 ST. CLAIR...             STONE...
TANEY...                VERNON...                WEBSTER...

SOME CITIES INCLUDING IN THE WATCH ARE FORT SCOTT AND COLUMBUS
KANSAS...JOPLIN...SPRINGFIELD...BRANSON AND BOLIVAR MISSOURI.

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR AREAS WEST OF A LINE FROM VERSAILLES TO
MARSHFIELD TO FORSYTH UNTIL 2 AM CST.

A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY WAS LOCATED FROM ROLLA... SOUTHWEST TO
SPRINGFIELD AND THEN SOUTH OF JOPLIN INTO NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ALONG
THIS BOUNDARY THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AND WERE MOVING NORTH AND
NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHERN MISSOURI. SOME OF
THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE OVERNIGHT...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR
THE WATCH AREA.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE
HAIL...AND SOMETIMES TORNADOES.

JLT

Local storm report, Dec 3, 10:50 PM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1050 PM CST FRI DEC 03 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0906 PM    3 W NEOSHO                MO    .75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   NEWTON

0907 PM    SENECA                    MO    .75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   NEWTON

0915 PM    3 W JOPLIN                MO    1 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   JASPER

0928 PM    9 W LAMAR                 MO    1.75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   BARTON                          GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND
                                           70 MPH WINDS

1005 PM    BOWERS MILL               MO    .75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   LAWRENCE

1005 PM    LAMAR                     MO    1 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   BARTON

1015 PM    1 N SENECA                MO    .75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   NEWTON

1030 PM    SENECA                    MO    .88 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   NEWTON                          NICKEL SIZE HAIL
                                           COVERING THE GROUND

1035 PM    MILLER                    MO    1.75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   LAWRENCE

1045 PM    FIDELITY                  MO    .88 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   JASPER

1045 PM    CARTHAGE                  MO    .75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   JASPER

1045 PM    PENNSBORO                 MO    .88 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   DADE

Local storm report, Dec 3, 10:50 PM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1050 PM CST FRI DEC 03 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0906 PM    3 W NEOSHO                MO    .75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   NEWTON

0907 PM    SENECA                    MO    .75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   NEWTON

0915 PM    3 W JOPLIN                MO    1 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   JASPER

0928 PM    9 W LAMAR                 MO    1.75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   BARTON                          GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND
                                           70 MPH WINDS

1005 PM    BOWERS MILL               MO    .75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   LAWRENCE

1005 PM    LAMAR                     MO    1 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   BARTON

1015 PM    1 N SENECA                MO    .75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   NEWTON

1030 PM    SENECA                    MO    .88 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   NEWTON                          NICKEL SIZE HAIL
                                           COVERING THE GROUND

1035 PM    MILLER                    MO    1.75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   LAWRENCE

1045 PM    FIDELITY                  MO    .88 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   JASPER

1045 PM    CARTHAGE                  MO    .75 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   JASPER

1045 PM    PENNSBORO                 MO    .88 INCH HAIL
12/03/99   DADE

Local storm report, Dec 4, 12:33 AM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 4, 12:33 AM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 3, 8:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	45 min
Dec 3, 9:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	42 min
Dec 3, 9:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	36 min
Dec 3, 9:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	52 min
Dec 3, 9:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	45 min
Dec 3, 9:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Lawrence	52 min
Dec 3, 10:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Lawrence	44 min
Dec 3, 10:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	51 min
Dec 3, 10:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	43 min
Dec 3, 10:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	50 min
Dec 3, 10:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory, Polk	46 min
Dec 3, 10:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	51 min
Dec 3, 11:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SGF	Greene, Polk	50 min
Dec 3, 11:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence	49 min
Dec 3, 11:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Miller	39 min
Dec 3, 11:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	46 min
Dec 3, 11:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Polk	53 min
Dec 4, 12:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	41 min
Dec 4, 12:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	47 min
Dec 4, 12:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	43 min
Dec 4, 1:44 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence, Newton	3 hr
Dec 4, 7:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	30 min
Dec 4, 9:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald, Newton	50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.