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Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Springfield, MO

August 2, 2002Barry County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2002, 5:50 PM CDT for Barry 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: Aug 2, 2002, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barry County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 12 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: 2081 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 022250
FFWSGF
MOC009-030200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
546 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BARRY COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 540 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.   
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT OVER 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN 
  SOUTHWEST OF PLEASANT RIDGE. CALTON CREEK AND LITTLE FLAT CREEK
  WILL LIKELY SEE RAPID RISES.

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
  WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE
  FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. 

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS 
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. 
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3675 9408 3675 9359 3692 9363 3693 9407

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1 follow-up statement

413 
RWUS32 KSGF 030151
FFSSGF
MOC009-030200-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
850 PM CDT FRI AUG 2 2002

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN BARRY 
COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 900 PM...

EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS
AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO
RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...
PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

LAT...LON 3678 9405 3678 9364 3693 9365 3693 9375
          3693 9392 3692 9406

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	46 min
Aug 2, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	45 min
Aug 2, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	41 min
Aug 2, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	38 min
Aug 2, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	41 min
Aug 2, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	39 min
Aug 2, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	48 min
Aug 2, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	39 min
Aug 2, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	44 min
Aug 2, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Phelps, Pulaski	33 min
Aug 2, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	39 min
Aug 2, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton	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.