Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2003, 8:19 PM CDT for Dent County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 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 6, 2003, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2003, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dent County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 2206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 14.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 070122 FFWSGF MOC065-070630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 819 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DENT COUNTY IN MISSOURI * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 814 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ACROSS NORTHERN DENT COUNTY. * 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...SALEM...HOWES...AND LENOX. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3773 9178 3747 9171 3747 9126 3771 9131 $$ FOSTER
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KSGF 070432 FFSSGF MOC065-070500- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1128 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR DENT COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ALTHOUGH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES FELL OVER EXTREME NORTHERN DENT COUNTY NEAR LECOMA...NO REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. SOME SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL LIKELY BE BANK FULL IN NORTHERN DENT COUNTY...HOWEVER RUNOFF IS COMPLETE AND NO ADDITIONAL FLOODING PROBLEMS ARE EXPECTED. LAT...LON 3777 9130 3742 9122 3742 9175 3778 9179 $$ JLT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Dallas | 39 min |
| May 6, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 51 min |
| May 6, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Laclede | 60 min |
| May 6, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden, Dallas, Laclede, Maries, Phelps, Pulaski | 6 hr |
| May 6, 7:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Lawrence | 6 hr |
| May 6, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 39 min |
| May 6, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 52 min |
| May 6, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Phelps, Pulaski | 47 min |
| May 6, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent | 54 min |
| May 6, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 48 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.