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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2000, 9:33 AM CDT for Dade County, Lawrence 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
- Jul 1, 2000, 9:33 AM CDT (14:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Dade County, MO, Lawrence County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:34 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 866 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 011436 FFWSGF MOC057-109-011800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 933 AM CDT SAT JUL 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SOUTHWESTERN DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 930 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR MILLER...OR 9 MILES NORTH OF MOUNT VERNON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND 2 INCHES SINCE 830 AM OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY. * 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...MILLER...AND RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY... AND SOUTHWESTERN DADE COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND COUNTRY ROADS. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. LAT...LON 3741 9409 3721 9406 3715 9363 3726 9364 FOSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 31 min |
| Jun 30, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald, Newton | 44 min |
| Jun 30, 9:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Newton | 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.