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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Springfield, MO

May 7, 2002Texas County, Wright County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 2002, 1:53 PM CDT for Texas County, Wright County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 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 7, 2002, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Texas County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 309 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 071853
FFWSGF
MOC215-229-080100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
151 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WRIGHT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
  TEXAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 148 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.   
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED ONE TO TWO INCHES HAD FALLEN SINCE NOON
  OVER MUCH OF WRIGHT AND TEXAS COUNTIES WITH LOCAL AMOUNT NEAR 3 
  INCHES.

* ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL 
  MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE WARNED AREA.  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL 
  AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
  RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO 
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... 
  HOUSTON...RAYMONDVILLE...NORWOOD...MOUNTAIN GROVE...MANSFIELD... 
  HARTVILLE AND CABOOL.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AS WELL 
AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.

BECAUSE OF THE HILLY TERRAIN OF THE OZARKS...THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF
LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT
ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES
AWAY.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
SPRINGFIELD.

LAT...LON 3749 9181 3707 9175 3709 9267 3747 9267

FOSTER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	50 min
May 7, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	53 min
May 7, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	56 min
May 7, 1:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	59 min
May 7, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Cedar, Hickory, St. Clair	62 min
May 7, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	53 min
May 7, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	47 min
May 7, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede	52 min
May 7, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	65 min
May 7, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski	61 min
May 7, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps	49 min
May 7, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede	44 min
May 7, 5:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Maries, Miller, Phelps, Pulaski	6 hr
May 7, 8:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	60 min
May 7, 9:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	55 min
May 7, 9:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Benton, St. Clair	6 hr
May 7, 9:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	60 min
May 7, 10:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade	49 min
May 7, 10:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	6 hr
May 7, 11:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	30 min
May 7, 12:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Polk, Webster	23 min
May 7, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	44 min
May 7, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Greene, Webster	43 min
May 7, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon, Shannon	42 min
May 7, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Vernon	59 min
May 7, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair	53 min
May 7, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar	46 min
May 7, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory	66 min
May 7, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Newton	62 min
May 7, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas	57 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.