Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2000, 10:10 AM CDT for Taney 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2000, 10:10 AM CDT (15:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2000, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Taney County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:10 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 171511 FFWSGF MOC213-171845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1010 AM CDT SAT JUN 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... TANEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 145 PM CDT * AT 1010 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN SPRINGFIELD ESTIMATES THAT UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER TANEY COUNTY OVER THE PAST THREE HOURS...AND THREE TO FIVE INCHES HAS FALLEN SINCE LATE LAST NIGHT. * MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER THE WARNED AREA THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...BRANSON...FORSYTH...HOLLISTER... MERRIAM WOODS...ROCKAWAY BEACH AND TANEYVILLE. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT TWO LOW WATER CROSSINGS ON HIGHWAY 65 AND BEAR CREEK WERE UNDERWATER...AND J HIGHWAY AT TRIGGER COVE WAS UNDER 2 FEET OF WATER. BECAUSE OF THE HILLY TERRAIN OF THE OZARKS...THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. LAT...LON 3678 9329 3653 9328 3653 9283 3680 9280 TERRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 10:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone, Taney | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald, Stone | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 11:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Shannon | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 12:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Ozark | 2 hr |
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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.