Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2000, 10:55 AM CDT for Barton County, Vernon County, Missouri; Crawford County, Kansas. 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 22, 2000, 10:55 AM CDT (15:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:54 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 221557
FFWSGF
KSC037-MOC011-217-221845-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1055 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
SOUTHERN VERNON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI
NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 145 PM CDT
* AT 1055 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL
EXTENDING FROM GIRARD KANSAS TO NEAR SHELDON. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO
INCHES PER HOUR HAVE BEEN PRODUCED WITH THESE STORMS SINCE 8 AM. THE PUBLIC
REPORTED THAT COUNTY ROAD IN NORTHERN BARTON COUNTY WERE BECOMING COVERED
WITH WATER.
* DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUND OVER THIS AREA...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS
OF ONE TO THREE INCHES WILL PRODUCE RUNOFF AND LIKELY LEAD TO FLASH
FLOODING AT AND NEAR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...GIRARD...LIBERAL...ARCADIA...
BRONAUGH...SHELDON...IRWIN...AND HEPLER. FLASH FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE
ALONG COX CREEK AND DRY WOOD CREEK.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3768 9508 3753 9507 3742 9414 3777 9408
3777 9450 3771 9462
TERRYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 11:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 12:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 2:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 2:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene | 3 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.