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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 8, 2002, 10:17 PM CDT for Crawford County, Kansas; Barton 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2002, 10:17 PM CDT (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2002, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Crawford County, KS, Barton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:18 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 13.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 090317 FFWSGF KSC037-MOC011-090630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1016 PM CDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BARTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1005 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE MOVING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 9 PM. * 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...PITTSBURG...MINDENMINES...LIBERAL...LAMAR...MULBERRY... HEPLER...GIRARD...FRONTENAC...ARMA AND ARCADIA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE MAJOR FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN SPRINGFIELD. LAT...LON 3764 9411 3737 9412 3735 9506 3766 9506 FOSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 47 min |
| May 8, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 38 min |
| May 8, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 21 min |
| May 8, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade, St. Clair, Vernon | 65 min |
| May 8, 10:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Morgan | 3 hr |
| May 8, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Newton | 44 min |
| May 8, 10:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton | 3 hr |
| May 8, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk | 44 min |
| May 8, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 41 min |
| May 8, 11:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Miller | 3 hr |
| May 9, 12:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Maries, Phelps, Pulaski | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2002Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2002Every 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.