Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2000, 1:17 AM CDT for Dent 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 12, 2000, 1:17 AM CDT (06:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2000, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dent County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:17 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 2639 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 120619 FFWSGF MOC065-120915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 117 AM CDT WED JUL 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DENT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 415 AM CDT * AT 111 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 6 MILES SOUTH OF SALEM... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN CENTRAL DENT COUNTY SINCE 1230 AM. * 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...SALEM...JADWIN AND DARIEN. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. 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 WATER BEGINS RISING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. LAT...LON 3759 9170 3746 9154 3771 9119 3786 9139 SUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Morgan | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps | 38 min |
| Jul 12, 3:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dallas, Hickory, Polk | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 5:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene | 6 hr |
| Jul 12, 7:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Polk | 4 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.