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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2000, 12:09 AM CDT for Christian County, Greene County, Stone 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 21, 2000, 12:09 AM CDT (05:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Christian County, MO, Greene County, MO, Stone County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:12 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 45 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 210513 FFWSGF MOC043-077-209-210830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1209 AM CDT WED JUN 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 330 AM CDT * AT 1208AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING OUT OF GREEN COUTNY AND ACROSS CHRISTIAN AND NORTHERN STONE COUNTIES. HOURLY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. STREETS WERE REPORTED TO BE FLOODED IN SPRINGFIELD. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.y LAT...LON 3738 9360 3682 9364 3683 9305 3740 9317 FOSTER
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 20, 11:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton | 6 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.