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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Springfield, MO

July 3, 2000Greene County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2000, 4:39 PM CDT for Greene 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 3, 2000, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Greene County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 57 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 509 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 202 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
509 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 032143
FFWSGF
MOC077-040045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
439 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 434 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY
  RAINFALL NEAR SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. DOPPLER
  RADAR ESTIMATED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF 
  SPRINGFIELD.
  
* 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...SPRINGFIELD.

  2 FEET OF WATER WAS OVER THE INTERCESSION AT CAMPBELL AND MEADOW MEAR.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3725 9341 3712 9325 3716 9313 3733 9328

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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.