Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2001, 6:28 PM CDT for Polk 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 14, 2001, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Polk County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 142332 FFWSGF MOC167-150230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 628 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN POLK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 625 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF URBANA TO MORRISVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY RANGE FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES WITH LOCAL 4 INCH AMOUNTS IN THE HUMANSVILLE AREA SINCE NOON. * MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE WARNING AREA THROUGH 8 PM. ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE. 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 3780 9359 3745 9360 3744 9333 3780 9332 DSA
The 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, 2:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Hickory | 6 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, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 30 min |
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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.