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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 25, 1999, 9:57 AM CDT for Barton County, Jasper County, Missouri; Crawford County, Kansas. 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
- Apr 25, 1999, 9:57 AM CDT (14:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1999, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSGF 251458
FFWSGF
KSC037-MOC011-097-251830-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
957 AM CDT SUN APR 25 1999
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CRAWFORD COUNTY IN KANSAS
BARTON COUNTY IN MISSOURI
JASPER COUNTY IN MISSOURI
INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF JOPLIN...LAMAR...CARTHAGE...GIRARD AND
WEBB CITY
* UNTIL 130 PM CDT
* AT 957 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ONE
AND A HALF TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER THE AREA. AN
ADDITIONAL ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY THROUGH EARLY
AFTERNOON...AND WILL LIKELY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. IN
JASPER COUNTY...LOCAL OBSERVERS REPORTED THAT HIGHWAY 171 AND
HAWTHORNE HAD FLOWING WATER ACROSS THE ROAD.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SARCOXIE...AVILLA...
JASPER...GOLDEN CITY...LIBERAL...WALNUT...AND FRANKLIN.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMABLL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
SPRINGFIELD.
TERRYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 11:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dade | 3 hr |
| Apr 25, 12:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene | 3 hr |
| Apr 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dade, Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene | 3 hr |
| Apr 25, 9:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 11:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 1999Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 1999Every 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.