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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Springfield, MO

August 7, 2000Texas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 2000, 2:42 PM CDT for Texas County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 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
Aug 7, 2000, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Texas County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 157 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 2000-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 796 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 12:00Z on 2000-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 155 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
796 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 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 071949
FFWSGF
MOC215-072345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
242 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN TEXAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 241 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR CABOOL...OR 10 MILES
  EAST OF MOUNTAIN GROVE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR
  ESTIMATED THAT UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SOUTHWEST 
  TEXAS COUNTY SINCE 11 AM.

* 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...CABOOL...MOUNTAIN GROVE...SIMMONS...AND ELK CREEK.

CABOOL POLICE HAVE REPORTED THIS AFTERNOON THAT SEVERAL STREETS WERE 
FLOODED FROM EARLIER RAINS.  ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO 
AGGREVATE THIS PROBLEM.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.  MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE
CAUTION IN RURAL AREAS AND NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED LOW WATER 
CROSSINGS.

LAT...LON 3722 9226 3707 9226 3707 9175 3731 9181

GAEDE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 4:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMiller27 min
Aug 7, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFShannon32 min
Aug 7, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBenton51 min
Aug 7, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMorgan67 min

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.