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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2001, 6:34 AM CDT for Benton County, Morgan 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
- Jun 6, 2001, 6:34 AM CDT (11:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2001, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Benton County, MO, Morgan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:37 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 952 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KSGF 061141
FFWSGF
MOC015-141-061430-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
634 AM CDT WED JUN 6 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 930 AM CDT
* AT 630 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO PRODUCE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL
ACROSS BENTON AND MORGAN COUNTIES. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES
OF RAIN HAD FALLEN FROM SOUTHWEST MORGAN COUNTY WESTWARD TO THE
SOUTHEAST OF WARSAW...AND 1 TO 2 INCHES WEST OF LINCOLN. THE BENTON
COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED FLOODING OF FLOOD PRONE AREAS...INCLUDING
HIGHWAY F NEAR COLE CAMP AND ROADS IN THE FORBES ADDITION AREA.
* AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN IS LIKELY ACROSS BENTON AND MORGAN
COUNTIES THIS MORNING...MAKING ADDITIONAL FLOODING LIKELY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS OF FLOODED LOW WATER
CROSSINGS. REPORT ANY FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3833 9353 3810 9346 3811 9311 3822 9301
3822 9273 3842 9266 3870 9298 3851 9309
3850 9350
RUNNELSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 2 hr |
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.