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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 2000, 8:14 AM CDT for Greene County, Polk 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 20, 2000, 8:14 AM CDT (13:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 11:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Greene County, MO, Polk County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:17 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 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 1500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 201315 FFWSGF MOC077-167-201615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 814 AM CDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN POLK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 1115 AM CDT * AT 811 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OVER GREENE AND POLK COUNTIES... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS NORTHERN GREENE AND SOUTHERN POLK COUNTIES. * 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...BATTLEFIELD...REPUBLIC...SPRINGFIELD... BROOKLINE...PLEASANT HOPE AND WILLARD. THE SPRINGFIELD BRANSON REGIONAL AIRPORT HAS RECEIVED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN IN THE LAST 30 MINUTES. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3727 9358 3711 9354 3710 9317 3752 9323 y 3751 9362 TERRY/BOOKBINDER
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, 6:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade | 4 hr |
| Jul 20, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Greene | 30 min |
| 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 |
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.