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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 19, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT for Maries County, Miller County, Pulaski 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
- Apr 19, 2002, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2002, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Pulaski County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1060 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KSGF 192315
FFWSGF
MOC125-131-169-200500-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
615 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
MARIES COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
MILLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
* AT 606 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN.
* 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...VIENNA...ST. ELIZABETH...IBERIA...DIXON AND CROCKER.
WATER WAS REPORTED OVER HIGHWAY 7 IN EASTERN CAMDEN COUNTY. OTHER
AREAS OF POSSIBLE FLOODING ARE...
HIGHWAY U IN NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTY.
HIGHWAY N 1 MILE WEST OF ROUTE V IN MARIES COUNTY.
HIGHWAY Z 2 MILES EAST OF ROUTE W IN MILLER COUNTY.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA.
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 3824 9169 3788 9214 3786 9233 3798 9238
3830 9268
SSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 11:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent | 43 min |
| Apr 19, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Webster | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dade, Lawrence | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 5:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Phelps | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Texas | 42 min |
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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.