Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2000, 11:40 PM CDT for 5 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2000, 11:40 PM CDT (04:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barry County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:42 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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 210446 FFWSGF MOC009-097-109-119-145-211045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1140 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI MCDONALD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI BARRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 600 AM CDT * AT 1130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NEWTON AND SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTIES...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST TWO HOURS. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING 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...AURORA...MOUNT VERNON...MARIONVILLE...MILLER AND VERONA. HIGHWAY 37 JUST NORTHWEST OF SARCOXIE IS COVERED WITH WATER. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZdE 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 WATER BEGINS RISING. SHUMWAY/CISSELL
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, 9:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller | 4 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.