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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Springfield, MO

June 28, 2001Barry County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2001, 3:08 PM CDT for Barry 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 28, 2001, 3:08 PM CDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Barry County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 22 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 479 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 282012
FFWSGF
MOC009-282300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
308 PM CDT THU JUN 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BARRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 305 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FALLING OVER WESTERN BARRY  
  COUNTY FROM NEAR MONETT TO SELIGMEN. THE STORMS ARE NEARLY         
  STATIONARY AND RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 2 T0 3 INCHES OF RAIN 
  HAS FALLEN OVER THE PAST HOUR. 

* THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH THROUGH WESTERN      
  SECTIONS OF BARRY COUNTY THROUGH 430 PM. AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO        
  3 INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNING AREA LEADING      
  TO FLASH FLOODING. AREAS NEAR                                      
  SELIGMEN...WASHBURN...WAYNE...AND LOCATIONS BETWEEN                
  RIDGLEY AND CASSVILLE WILL BE PARTICULARLY HARD HIT.

MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. N	EVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON
FOOT.

LAT...LON 3690 9406 3652 9402 3652 9379 3692 9392

DSA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	43 min
Jun 27, 7:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	113 min
Jun 27, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	49 min
Jun 28, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	58 min
Jun 28, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Lawrence	50 min
Jun 28, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	46 min
Jun 28, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	49 min
Jun 28, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	43 min
Jun 28, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	43 min
Jun 28, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Polk	47 min
Jun 28, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	40 min
Jun 28, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	42 min
Jun 28, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	42 min
Jun 28, 6:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Taney	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.