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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2003, 12:56 PM CDT for 5 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Kansas. 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 13, 2003, 12:56 PM CDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2003, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cherokee County, KS, Barry County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KSGF 131756
FFWSGF
KSC021-MOC009-097-109-119-145-132100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1256 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN MCDONALD COUNTY IN MISSOURI
BARRY COUNTY IN MISSOURI
NEWTON COUNTY IN MISSOURI
SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN MISSOURI
SOUTHERN JASPER COUNTY IN MISSOURI
SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN KANSAS
* UNTIL 400 PM CDT.
* AT 1250 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN THE
LAST ONE AND A HALF HOURS...WITH AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES
OF RAIN EXPECTED THROUGH 3 PM.
* 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...NEOSHO...MONETT...JOPLIN...WHEATON...WASHBURN
...VERONA... SILVER CREEK...SHOAL CREEK DRIVE...SENECA...SELIGMAN
...SARCOXIE AND SAGINAW.
STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN MONETT.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY
AUTOMOBILE.
LAT...LON 3707 9365 3651 9364 3650 9462 3698 9464
3699 9506 3715 9510
$$
TERRY1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS73 KSGF 131945
FFSSGF
KSC021-MOC009-097-109-119-145-132100-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
244 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN
MCDONALD...BARRY...NEWTON...SOUTHERN LAWRENCE...SOUTHERN JASPER AND
SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS
AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO
RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING WAS OBSERVED EARLIER
THIS AFTERNOON...PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY.
LAT...LON 3701 9365 3655 9366 3653 9462 3670 9412
3684 9418 3683 9465 3702 9464 3703 9506
3721 9510 3713 9419 3701 9403
$$
TERRYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 11:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 58 min |
| May 13, 12:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 44 min |
| May 13, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 45 min |
| May 13, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 44 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2003Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.