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Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Springfield, MO

July 30, 2001Ozark County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT for Ozark 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 30, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ozark County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 2206 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1229 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 302137
FFWSGF
MOC153-310030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
430 PM CDT MON JUL 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 423 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM NEAR BRIXEY...SOUTHEAST 
TO BAKERSFIELD IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST CORNER OF OZARK COUNTY.  
DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED ONE TO TWO INCHES FROM NEAR 
ZANONI...SOUTHEAST TO NORTH OF BAKERSFIELD SINCE 330 PM. ISOLATED 
RAINFALL TOTALS NEAR THREE INCHES WERE NORTH OF BAKERSFIELD AND 
SOUTHWEST OF ELIJAH. LOW WATER CROSSINGS...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE 
NORTH AND SOUTH BRIDGES CREEKS...OVER COUNTY ROADS SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 
160 AND NORTH OF BAKERSFIELD...WILL BE ESPECIALLY HAZARDOUS DURING 
THE NEXT THREE HOURS. ALSO AREAS ALONG THE NORTH FORK OF THE WHITE 
RIVER NORTH OF TECUMSEH. 

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE IN THE WARNED 
AREA...ESPECIALLY BETWEEN BRIXEY AND SYCAMORE WITH AN ADDITIONAL ONE 
TO TWO INCHES POSSIBLE. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL 
CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. 

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 3680 9245 3650 9246 3650 9214 3680 9212

JLT

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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.