Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Feb 24, 2001, 1:02 PM CST for Barton County, Jasper County, Missouri; Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. 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
- Feb 24, 2001, 1:02 PM CST (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO, Jasper County, MO
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 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 241906
FFWSGF
KSC021-037-MOC011-097-242200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
102 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
JASPER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
BARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 400 PM CST
* AT 1256 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF
SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY
EXTENDED FROM NEVADA TO TO MINDENMINES TO JUST WEST OF JOPLIN.
THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 50 MPH...WHILE
THE OVERALL LINE OF STORMS WAS DRIFTING SLOWLY EAST. DOPPLER
RADAR INDICATED THAT RAINFALL RATES FROM ONE TO ONE AND A HALF
INCHES PER HOUR WERE COMMON FROM THESE STORMS.
* 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...PITTSBURG...ARCADIA...ARMA...FRONTENAC...
MULBERRY...LAMAR...LIBERAL AND MINDENMINES.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA. THIS RAIN WILL COMBINE WITH LAST NIGHT'S TORRENTIAL
RAINFALL TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK
HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3738 9504 3701 9504 3700 9463 3708 9462
37J07 9414 3764 9412 3766 9506
HUDSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 4:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Greene, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Vernon | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 12:47 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence, Newton | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 1:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Lawrence, Stone | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Stone | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 1:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 2:09 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Taney | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 2:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 29 min |
| Feb 24, 3:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas | 24 min |
| Feb 24, 3:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Webster, Wright | 38 min |
| Feb 24, 3:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Ozark | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 3:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 4:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Barton, Christian, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Texas | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 38 min |
| Feb 23, 10:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2001Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every 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.