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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Springfield, MO

February 8, 2001Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Feb 8, 2001, 4:14 PM CST for Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. 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
Feb 8, 2001, 4:14 PM CST (22:14 UTC)
Expired
Feb 8, 2001, 7:00 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 2001-02-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 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 2001-02-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 354 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
39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
354 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
331 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 082215
FFWSGF
KSC021-037-090115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
414 PM CST THU FEB 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 409 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING 
  FROM MINDENMINES TO CHETOPA.  THE LINE OF STORMS HAS REMAINED 
  NEARLY STATIONARY SINCE 3 PM...AS THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS IN THE 
  LINE MOVE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED 
  RAINFALL RATES FROM ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR...AND OBSERVERS IN 
  PITTSBURG KANSAS REPORTED TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE
  2 PM. 

* 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...PITTSBURG...ARMA...COLUMBUS...SKIDMORE... 
  WEIR AND BEULAH.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO TWO INCHES ARE LIKELY THROUGH 6 
PM.  TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY 
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN 
SPRINGFIELD.

LAT...LON 3768 9507 3702 9506 3701 9466 3766 9466

HUDSON

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.