Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 2000, 7:20 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas; Jasper County, Newton 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2000, 7:20 AM CDT (12:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 10:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Jasper County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:19 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 116 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 091223 FFWSGF KSC021-037-MOC097-145-091515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 720 AM CDT TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1015 AM CDT * AT 718 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WARNED AREA. ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAD ENDED...RUNOFF WAS INCOMPLETE AND AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 830 AM. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE ...ARMA...CHEROKEE...FRONTENAC...GIRARD...PITTSBURG AND WEIR. 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 AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. SUTTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 38 min |
| May 9, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 50 min |
| May 9, 1:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 3 hr |
| May 9, 4:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 3 hr |
| May 8, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 29 min |
| May 8, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton | 56 min |
| May 8, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Morgan | 64 min |
| May 8, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 39 min |
| May 8, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence | 61 min |
| May 8, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar | 26 min |
| May 8, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Hickory, Polk | 43 min |
| May 9, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede | 39 min |
| May 9, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 4 hr |
| May 9, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.