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Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Springfield, MO

May 29, 2002Ozark County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 2002, 3:21 PM CDT for Ozark 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 29, 2002, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ozark County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2002-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 501 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2002-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
501 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-33 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 292022
FFWSGF
MOC153-292330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
321 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  OZARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 314 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.     
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN JUST EAST OF   
  GAINESVILLE.

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE 
  WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE        
  FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE       
  FLOODING INCLUDE...GAINESVILLE.

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 3678 9214 3652 9217 3655 9272 3681 9275
          3679 9246

SS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 10:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFStone6 hr
May 29, 4:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFDouglas, Wright4 hr

Nearby

Flash 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.