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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2001, 3:53 AM CDT for St. Clair 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
- Jul 5, 2001, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2001, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County St. Clair County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 3466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1266 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 050858 FFWSGF MOC185-051200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 353 AM CDT THU JUL 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL 700 AM CDT * AT 347 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL COVERING MUCH OF THE COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN A BAND FROM NEAR APPLETON CITY TO NEAR ROSCOE. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE THROUGH 5 AM. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3819 9407 3791 9406 3791 9355 3820 9353 $$ BROWNING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, St. Clair | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory, Polk | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 4:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Shannon | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 4:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Webster | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 5:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Polk | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark, Taney | 39 min |
| Jul 5, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 6:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 51 min |
| Jul 5, 7:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar, Polk, St. Clair | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 8:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 8:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark, Taney | 3 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.