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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas; Barton County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 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 20, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1026 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 210231 FFWSGF KSC021-037-MOC011-210715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 930 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 215 AM CDT * AT 925 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER NORTHERN BARTON...EAST CENTRAL CRAWFORD...AND NORTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTIES...OVER THE PAST HOUR. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS ARMA...CHEROKEE... FRONTENAC... PITTSBURG ...WEIR...SCAMMON...WEST MINERAL... MULBERRY...LIBERAL AND MINDENMINES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. 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 WATE4R BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3726 9509 3707 9498 3764 9408 3763 9470 TERRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair, Vernon | 41 min |
| Jun 20, 8:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | St. Clair, Vernon | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller | 4 hr |
| Jun 20, 11:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Stone | 3 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.