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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2002, 10:03 PM CDT for Douglas County, Webster 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
- Aug 12, 2002, 10:03 PM CDT (03:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2002, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Douglas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
060 WGUS53 KSGF 130303 FFWSGF MOC067-225-229-130900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 959 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN MISSOURI SOUTHWESTERN WRIGHT COUNTY IN MISSOURI SOUTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN MISSOURI * UNTIL 400 AM CDT * AT 956 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 8 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...AVA...SEYMOUR...MANSFIELD...FORDLAND AND DIGGINS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...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. LAT...LON 3718 9249 3680 9248 3680 9291 3723 9302 GAEDE $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Laclede, Webster | 52 min |
| Aug 12, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Webster, Wright | 60 min |
| Aug 12, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 60 min |
| Aug 12, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 62 min |
| Aug 12, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 61 min |
| Aug 12, 11:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Ozark | 5 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Morgan | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Taney | 31 min |
| Aug 13, 12:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon | 6 hr |
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.