Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 2000, 3:45 AM CDT for Jasper County, Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 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
- May 9, 2000, 3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 7:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:44 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 090849 FFWSGF MOC097-145-091245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 345 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 745 AM CDT * AT 339 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER A LARGE PART OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL SINCE MIDNIGHT OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN JASPER AND NORTHWEST NEWTON COUNTIES. * ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA WILL PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER THE SAME AREAS THROUGH 7 AM. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVE0D ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. JLT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 29 min |
| May 8, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 56 min |
| May 8, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Morgan | 64 min |
| May 8, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 39 min |
| May 8, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence | 61 min |
| May 8, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar | 26 min |
| May 8, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Hickory, Polk | 43 min |
| May 9, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede | 39 min |
| May 9, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone | 31 min |
| May 9, 7:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 3 hr |
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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.