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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Springfield, MO

July 28, 2000Dent County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2000, 6:54 PM CDT for Dent 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 28, 2000, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Dent County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 410 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2000-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
410 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-221 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1246 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 282358
FFWSGF
MOC065-290300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
654 PM CDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DENT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 651 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR LICKING...OR 15 MILES
  NORTH OF HOUSTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED
  TWO TO THREE INCHES PER HOUR WITH THIS LINE HEADING TOWARD DENT COUNTY.
  
* 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...SALEM.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE AND A HALF TO THREE INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE
AS THE STORMS MOVE INTO DENT COUNTY.

DO NOT D%RIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.  IT ONLY TAKES
A FEW INCHES OF RAIN TO LIFT YOUR CAR OFF THE PAVEMENT AND MAKE IT
INOPERABLE.

LAT...LON 3777 9178 3743 9175 3743 9124 3769 9119

LINDENBERG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFTaney48 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.