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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Springfield, MO

July 20, 2000Barton County, Cedar County, Dade County, Missouri; Crawford County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2000-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1928 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2000-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 6:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarton, Vernon34 min
Jul 20, 7:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDade, Greene30 min
Jul 20, 8:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFGreene, Polk3 hr
Jul 20, 8:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarry, Christian, Stone, Taney42 min
Jul 20, 8:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMcDonald42 min
Jul 20, 9:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDouglas, Ozark, Taney45 min
Jul 20, 6:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFBourbon3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 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.