Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2000, 11:47 AM CDT for Shannon 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2000, 11:47 AM CDT (16:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2000, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Shannon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 171650 FFWSGF MOC203-171945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1147 AM CDT SAT JUN 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SHANNON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 1145 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTHERN SHANNON COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SHANNON COUNTY SINCE 8 AM...AND FOUR TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR IN LOW LYING AREAS...CREEKS AND STREAMS. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE ALLEY SPRING ...EMINENCE...ROUND SPRING...AND THE OZARK SCENIC RIVERWAYS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. LAT...LON 3739 9161 3707 9163 3699 9125 3741 9127 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, 10:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Taney | 4 hr |
| Jun 17, 12:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Ozark | 2 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.