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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2000, 12:50 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Kansas; Jasper 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, 12:50 PM CDT (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Jasper County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 88 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 221752 FFWSGF KSC021-MOC097-222100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1250 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 1250 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL OVER CHEROKEE AND NORTHWEST JASPER COUNTY. RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF THE WARNED AREA. * AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL LIKELY EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE... GALENA...WEIR...JOPLIN...ALBA...CARL JUNCTION...CARTERVILLE...DUQUESNE... IRON GATES...JASPER...ORONOGO AND PURCELL. 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 sA SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3730 9504 3702 9497 3708 9431 3735 9422 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 | Crawford | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 11:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade | 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 Kansas, 2000Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 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.