Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2000, 12:55 PM CDT for Ozark County, Missouri. It was in force for 2 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, 12:55 PM CDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ozark County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 171759 FFWSGF MOC153-172000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1255 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... OZARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 1250 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SOUTHEAST OZARK COUNTY OVER THE PAST THREE HOURS...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF FOUR TO FIVE INCHES SINCE LATE FRIDAY EVENING. HIGHWAY 5 AT T HIGHWAY AT MAMMOTH...OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GAINESVILLE...WAS CLOSED DUE TO WATER OVER THE ROAD. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... GAINESVILLE... HARDENVILLE...MAMMOTH ...TECUMSEH AND UDALL. 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 SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3652 9265 3650 9222 3678 9217 3676 9253 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, 11:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Shannon | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000
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.