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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2002, 6:11 PM CDT for Howell County, Ozark 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
- Jun 13, 2002, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Howell County, MO, Ozark County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 132311 FFWSGF MOC091-153-140500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 606 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN OZARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN HOWELL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 603 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED TWO TO THREE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 430 PM. * SLOW MOVING 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...BAKERSFIELD. CAMPERS IN THE TECUMSEH PARK AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPID RISES ALONG PINE CREEK AND OTHER TRIBUTARIES OF THE NORTH FORK OF THE WHITE RIVER. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR CREEKS. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN SPRINGFIELD. LAT...LON 3664 9206 3650 9200 3651 9236 3667 9229 FOSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 10:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Newton | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 10:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Morgan | 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.