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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Springfield, MO

July 29, 20006 counties in Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT for 6 counties in 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 29, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2000, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Barry County, MO, Greene County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:30 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 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 00:00Z on 2000-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 154 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2000-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 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 290531
FFWSGF
MOC009-077-097-109-119-145-290830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1230 AM CDT SAT JUL 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI...
  JASPER COUNTY 
  LAWRENCE COUNTY
  GREENE COUNTY 
  MCDONALD COUNTY 
  BARRY COUNTY 
  NEWTON COUNTY 

* UNTIL 330 AM CDT

* AT 1225 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM JOPLIN TO 
  SPRINGFIELD...FROM NEOSHO TO CASSVILLE...AND OVER SOUTHERN MCDONALD 
  COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO 
  INCHES PER HOUR WERE OCCURRING WITH THE STORMS.

* THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP AND INTENSIFY OVER THE 
  WARNED AREA. SINCE THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM RAINFALL 
  EARLIER TODAY...RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY 
  CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH
  FLOODING INCLUDE...JOPLIN...SPRINGFIELD...MOUNT VERNON...MILLER...MONETT
  ...NOEL...AND NEOSHO.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD. FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.

LAT...LON 3733 9457 3708 9459 3654 9461 3655 9371
          3712 9369 3711 9311 3743 9316 3741 9361
          3729 9365

TERRY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 12:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFMiller3 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.