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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Springfield, MO

June 10, 2003Miller County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT for Miller County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 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: Jun 10, 2003, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Miller County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 424 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 496 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 13.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 102115
FFWSGF
MOC131-110100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
415 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MILLER COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT.

* AT 409 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.     
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN   
  OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY DURING THE PAST    
  HOUR. 

* 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...ST. ELIZABETH...LAKELAND...LAKE OZARK...IBERIA AND ELDON.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR ARE LIKELY 
DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS. THIS WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING ACROSS 
THE COUNTY. 

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN 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.

BECAUSE OF THE HILLY TERRAIN OF THE OZARKS...THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF
LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT
ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES
AWAY.

LAT...LON 3838 9265 3823 9268 3807 9260 3803 9220
          3837 9222

$$

IZZI

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KSGF 110047
FFSSGF
MOC131-110100-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
747 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MILLER COUNTY 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 HAS BEEN OBSERVED...
PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

LAT...LON 3831 9219 3806 9221 3805 9252 3826 9265
          3842 9263

$$

IZZI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 5:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Hickory, St. Clair	50 min
Jun 10, 6:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries, Phelps, Pulaski	44 min
Jun 10, 6:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	50 min
Jun 10, 6:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	49 min
Jun 10, 7:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	50 min
Jun 10, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	48 min
Jun 10, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton	54 min
Jun 10, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	St. Clair	61 min
Jun 10, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	45 min
Jun 10, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	66 min
Jun 10, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	50 min
Jun 10, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	48 min
Jun 10, 3:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Morgan	4 hr
Jun 10, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	65 min
Jun 10, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	62 min
Jun 10, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	60 min
Jun 10, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski	42 min
Jun 10, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	38 min
Jun 10, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	60 min
Jun 10, 6:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Newton	4 hr
Jun 10, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	52 min
Jun 10, 6:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden	6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2003 Every 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.