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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2000, 11:20 AM CDT for Cedar County, Dade 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 22, 2000, 11:20 AM CDT (16:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:24 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 221621 FFWSGF MOC039-057-221915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1120 AM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SOUTHERN CEDAR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 215 PM CDT * AT 1120 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTHERN DADE AND SOUTHERN CEDAR COUNTIES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT UP TO THREE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...ARCOLA...CEDARVILLE...AND UMBER VIEW HEIGHTS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. 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 3766 9408 3745 9408 3745 9364 3765 9366 TERRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 10:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 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
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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.