Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 2000, 6:50 AM CDT for Barton County, Cedar County, Dade County, Missouri; Crawford County, Kansas. 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
- Jul 20, 2000, 6:50 AM CDT (11:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:53 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1928 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 201155 FFWSGF KSC037-MOC011-039-057-201545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 650 AM CDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS CEDAR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 1045 AM CDT * AT 647 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR GREENFIELD WESTWARD ALONG THE VERNON AND BARTON COUNTY LINE INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THIS AREA. * 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...ARMA...FRONTENAC...GIRARD...PITTSBURG...EL DORADO SPRINGS...LAMAR...STOCKTON...ARCADIA...MULBERRY...LIBERAL AND MINDENMINES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER IF YOU LIVE NEAR A FLOOD PRONE AREA RUNNELS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 34 min |
| Jul 20, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Greene | 30 min |
| Jul 20, 8:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 8:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Stone, Taney | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 8:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark, Taney | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 6:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 3 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.