Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2002, 1:49 AM CDT for McDonald County, Newton County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2002, 1:49 AM CDT (06:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2002, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:49 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1379 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 060649 FFWSGF MOC119-145-061130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 145 AM CDT MON MAY 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MCDONALD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI NEWTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI * UNTIL 630 AM CDT * AT 145 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING OUT OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA INTO FAR SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT THE STORMS HAD ALREADY PRODUCED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN IN WESTERN PORTIONS OF NEWTON COUNTY. * WHILE THE STORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST...THE REPEAT NATURE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LEAD TO SEVERAL PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. IN ADDITION TO URBAN FLOODING IN NEOSHO...SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING WILL LIKELY INCLUDE...SAGINAW... PINEVILLE...NOEL...LEAWOOD... LANAGAN...GRANBY ...GOODMAN AND ...FAIRVIEW. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...COUNTY HIGHWAYS...AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. FLASH FLOODING IS ESPECIALLY DEADLY AT NIGHT. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...TURN AROUND AND SEEK A DIFFERENT ROUTE. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND UPON IT. LAT...LON 3704 9408 3651 9411 3652 9460 3704 9459 RUNNELS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 21 min |
| May 6, 2:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 40 min |
| May 6, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone | 33 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.