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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Springfield, MO

May 7, 2002Barry County, Dade County, Lawrence County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 2002, 10:56 PM CDT for Barry County, Dade County, Lawrence 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, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2002, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Barry County, MO, Dade County, MO, Lawrence County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -642 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1000 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 480 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 729 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 080356
FFWSGF
MOC009-057-109-080930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1056 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BARRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
  DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 430 AM CDT

* AT 1052 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.   
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN WIL BE 
  POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

* 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 FLOODING    
  INCLUDE...MOUNT VERNON...MONETT...WHEATON...WASHBURN...VERONA...   
  SELIGMAN...PURDY...PIERCE CITY...MILLER...MARIONVILLE...LOCKWOOD   
  AND GREENFIELD.

LAT...LON 3756 9363 3651 9359 3650 9408 3759 9408

SUTTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade, Lawrence	71 min
May 7, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene	58 min
May 7, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	62 min
May 7, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper, Newton	57 min
May 7, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	51 min
May 7, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	48 min
May 7, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Dade, Lawrence	61 min
May 7, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	31 min
May 7, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Stone	61 min
May 7, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	59 min
May 8, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Webster	60 min
May 8, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	56 min
May 8, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	31 min
May 8, 3:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	54 min
May 8, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	59 min
May 8, 4:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Polk	56 min
May 8, 5:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	50 min
May 8, 6:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	41 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.