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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 2000, 1:55 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. 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
- May 9, 2000, 1:55 AM CDT (06:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:56 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 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 090656 FFWSGF KSC021-037-090945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 155 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 445 AM CDT * AT 150 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA SINCE LATE MONDAY EVENING. * THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP ACROSS CHEROKEE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES OVERNIGHT...AND PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...ARMA... CHEROKEE...COLUMBUS...FRONTENAC...GIRARD AND PITTSBURG. AT 140 AM...SOME MINOR FLOODING WAS REPORTED AROUND WEST MINERAL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS OVERNIGHT. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3699 9507 3698 9463 3768 9463 3767 9508 BOOKBINDER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 38 min |
| May 9, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 50 min |
| May 9, 4:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 3 hr |
| May 9, 7:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 3 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.