Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2000, 2:40 PM CDT for Greene 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, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Greene County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 0 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 51 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 221942 FFWSGF MOC077-222215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 240 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 234 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM ASH GROVE TO SPRINGFIELD. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN WESTERN GREENE COUNTY SINCE 130 PM. * HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...SPRINGFIELD... STRAFFORD...ASH GROVE...BROOKLINE...FAIR GROVE AND WILLARD. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 400 PM. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GRE_AT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3712 9358 3711 9314 3740 9309 3741 9361 SUTTON
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, 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 |
Nearby
Flash 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.