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Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2001, 4:54 PM CDT for Barton County, Jasper 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
- Aug 29, 2001, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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, 9.9 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.
- 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 292159 FFWSGF MOC011-097-300100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 454 PM CDT WED AUG 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI BARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 444 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM LAMAR SOUTH OF TO NEAR CARTHAGE. INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OVER THE AREA RANGE FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR OVER NORTHEASTERN SECTIONS OF JASPER COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF JASPER. * 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...ALBA...CARTHAGE...GOLDEN CITY AND JASPER. AN ADDTIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNING AREA. 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. LAT...LON 3708 9448 3708 9410 3761 9411 3763 9456 DSA
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, 3:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dade | 4 hr |
| 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, 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 |
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.