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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Springfield, MO

July 5, 2001Christian County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2001, 8:26 AM CDT for Christian 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, 8:26 AM CDT (13:26 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2001, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Christian County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:25 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 051326
FFWSGF

MOC043-051630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
826 AM CDT THU JUL 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 1130 AM CDT

* AT 820 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR SPARTA...OR 10 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF OZARK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR
  ESTIMATED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED
  FROM EARLIER STORMS ACROSS EASTERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY.

* 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...SPARTA....CHADWICK...AND OLDFIELD.


ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF A HALF INCH TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH
ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA.

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 3709 9310 3689 9322 3683 9318 3681 9292
          3708 9292

LINDENBERG

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, 3:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	St. Clair	3 hr
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, 8:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, 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.