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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2001, 2:35 PM CDT for Benton County, Hickory County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 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 14, 2001, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Benton County, MO, Hickory County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1604 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KSGF 141938
FFWSGF
MOC015-085-150130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
235 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
HICKORY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 231 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER
OF HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 5 MILE EAST
OF WARSAW TO NEAR STOCKTON. INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL OVER THE LAST HOUR OVER
SOUTHERN BENTON AND NORTHERN HICKORY COUNTIES HAS BEEN 1.5 TO 2.0
INCHES.
* ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE WARNING AREA OVER
THE NEXT 2 TO 3 HOURS. AN ADDTIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE
POSSIBLE...LEADING TO AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING.
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON
FOOT.
LAT...LON 3805 9352 3790 9349 3793 9312 3852 9311
3849 9348
DSAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory, Polk | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 4:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper, Vernon | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory, Polk | 38 min |
| Jun 14, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 6:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Polk | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 30 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.