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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Springfield, MO

June 29, 2001Stone County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT for Stone County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 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 29, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stone County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 21 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: 821 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 300002
FFWSGF
MOC209-300330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
700 PM CDT FRI JUN 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 653 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR CRANE...OR 17 MILES
  WEST OF OZARK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR
  ESTIMATED TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST TWO
  HOURS IN THE WARNED AREA.

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
  WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH
  FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH
  FLOODING INCLUDE...CRANE.

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 3699 9363 3680 9362 3681 9345 3699 9347

CISSELL/BROWNING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	62 min
Jun 29, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	57 min
Jun 30, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	38 min
Jun 30, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	50 min
Jun 30, 5:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Wright	4 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.