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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Springfield, MO

April 24, 2003Benton County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 24, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT for Benton 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 24, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Benton County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 250046
FFWSGF
MOC015-250700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
745 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 740 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN DURING THE PAST
  HOUR.  THIS IS ON TOP OF THE 2 TO 3 INCHES FROM LAST NIGHTS
  RAINFALL.

* 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...WARSAW...LINCOLN AND COLE CAMP.


ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED 
AREA.

LAT...LON 3852 9309 3807 9308 3808 9350 3852 9350

$$

LINDENBERG

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KSGF 250308
FFSSGF
MOC015-250330-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1008 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR BENTON 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 3849 9311 3810 9313 3809 9348 3851 9350

$$

BROWNING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	63 min
Apr 24, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Laclede, Wright	41 min
Apr 24, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	46 min
Apr 24, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Morgan	43 min
Apr 24, 7:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas	6 hr
Apr 24, 7:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Ozark	6 hr
Apr 24, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	66 min
Apr 24, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk, Texas	49 min
Apr 24, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Morgan	46 min
Apr 24, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory, St. Clair	56 min
Apr 24, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	39 min
Apr 24, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	49 min
Apr 24, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	67 min
Apr 24, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller, Morgan	50 min
Apr 24, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dallas, Polk	65 min
Apr 24, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Hickory	48 min
Apr 24, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Webster	53 min
Apr 24, 9:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden	6 hr
Apr 24, 9:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Camden	42 min
Apr 24, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Webster	38 min
Apr 24, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster	23 min
Apr 24, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	46 min

Nearby

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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.