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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Springfield, MO

June 30, 2003Stone County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 2003, 4:43 PM CDT for Stone 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: Jun 30, 2003, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stone County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 743 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 302145
FFWSGF
MOC209-010030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
443 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT.

* AT 442 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  THUNDERSTORMS NEARLY STATIONARY OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN STONE     
  COUNTY.  THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN OVER
  THE WARNED AREA FOR THE NEXT 30 MINUTES TO AN HOUR.  

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO   
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING                
  INCLUDE...REEDS SPRINGS...GALENA...AND WEST BRANSON.

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 3691 9337 3665 9336 3663 9353 3692 9355

$$

CRAMER

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KSGF 302257
FFSSGF
MOC043-209-010000-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
556 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR CHRISTIAN 
COUNTY AND UNTIL 730 PM FOR STONE COUNTY...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DIMINISHED IN INTENSITY ACROSS CHRISTIAN AND 
STONE COUNTIES.  HOWEVER...RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE WARNED 
COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.  MOTORISTS SHOULD BE AWARE 
OF ANY WATER COVERED ROADWAYS.  IF A ROAD IS WATER COVERED...DO NOT 
ATTEMPT TO CROSS IT...FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.

REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY SO THAT THEY
MAY TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION TO CLOSE FLOODED ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 3707 9293 3685 9296 3686 9337 3654 9341
          3653 9359 3708 9358

$$

SAW

000 
WGUS73 KSGF 010002
FFSSGF
MOC209-010300-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
701 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR STONE COUNTY HAS 
BEEN CANCELLED...

AT 700 PM...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED 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.

REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY SO THAT THEY
MAY TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION TO CLOSE FLOODED ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 3687 9339 3663 9342 3662 9356 3690 9357

$$

CRAMER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 7:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	4 hr
Jun 30, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas	65 min
Jun 30, 2:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Greene	3 hr
Jun 30, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	59 min
Jun 30, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	31 min
Jun 30, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	58 min
Jun 30, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	64 min
Jun 30, 3:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian	3 hr
Jun 30, 4:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	54 min
Jun 30, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar	23 min

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.