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Flash Flood Warning 81, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 2001, 7:20 PM CDT for Laclede County, Webster County, Wright 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
- Sep 8, 2001, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2001, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Laclede County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 090027 FFWSGF MOC105-225-229-090315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 720 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LACLEDE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI WEBSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI WRIGHT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 714 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING OVER EASTERN WEBSTER...MUCH OF WRIGHT AND NORTHERN TEXAS COUNTIES. A STORM SPOTTER IN NIANGUA REPORTED 2.8 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN THE PAST HOUR...AND 1 TO 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. STORMS WITH LIGHT TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING PRODUCING ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN. THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL LEAD TO FLOODING OF FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND THE NUMEROUS LOW WATER CROSSINGS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR FLOODED ROADWAYS. REMEMBER THAT FLOODING IS ESPECIALLY DEADLY AFTER DARK WHEN FLOOD WARNINGS ARE HARD TO RECOGNIZE. LAT...LON 3744 9303 3712 9303 3708 9228 3766 9232 RUNNELS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 67 min |
| Sep 8, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 65 min |
| Sep 8, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent | 61 min |
| Sep 8, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell, Texas | 66 min |
| Sep 8, 8:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dent, Howell, Phelps, Texas | 4 hr |
| Sep 8, 9:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Oregon, Shannon | 4 hr |
| Sep 9, 12:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Texas | 3 hr |
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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.