Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2001, 3:19 PM CDT for Dade 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
- Aug 29, 2001, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dade County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 1440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 292022 FFWSGF MOC057-300015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 319 PM CDT WED AUG 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 317 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR LOCKWOOD...OR 18 MILES NORTH OF MOUNT VERNON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN BETWEEN LOCKWOOD AND PENNSBORO OVER LIMESTONE CREEK. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR ALONG LIMESTONE CREEK. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...SOUTH GREENFIELD. FLOODING WAS REPORTED ON LIMESTONE CREEK. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. 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 3729 9408 3728 9370 3745 9371 3745 9408 FOSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 37 min |
| Aug 29, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 29 min |
| Aug 29, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 38 min |
| Aug 29, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede | 50 min |
| Aug 29, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 42 min |
| Aug 29, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 47 min |
| Aug 29, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 44 min |
| Aug 29, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 40 min |
| Aug 29, 4:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barton, Jasper | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries | 41 min |
| Aug 29, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 54 min |
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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.