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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2001, 5:59 PM CDT for Barry County, McDonald 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 27, 2001, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Barry County, MO, McDonald County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 561 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 272307 COR FFWSGF MOC009-119-280200- FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 605 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN MCDONALD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI WESTERN BARRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 555 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM NEAR MONETT SOUTH TO POWELL AND SELIGMAN. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. RADAR INDICATES 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR HAS FALLEN OVER NORTHEASTERN MCDONALD COUNTY SINCE 445 PM. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAIN. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE WARNING AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...EXETER...SELIGMAN... WASHBURN AND WHEATON. 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. LAT...LON 3681 9407 3681 9425 3649 9422 3652 9381 DSA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Webster | 39 min |
| Jun 27, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 43 min |
| Jun 27, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar | 42 min |
| Jun 27, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 15 min |
| Jun 27, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 43 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.