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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Springfield, MO

July 19, 2003Oregon County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2003, 1:06 AM CDT for Oregon 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: Jul 19, 2003, 1:06 AM CDT (06:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2003, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Oregon County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 2598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 13.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 190609
FFWSGF
MOC149-191000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
106 AM CDT SAT JUL 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT

* AT 102 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS
  OCCURRED TO THE NORTHEAST OF ALTON WITH MORE HEAVY RAIN
  EXPECTED TO OCCUR.

* 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...THAYER AND ALTON.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA WHICH SHOULD LEAD TO FLOODING.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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 3681 9114 3650 9114 3652 9163 3681 9164

$$

LINDENBERG

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KSGF 190913
FFSSGF
MOC091-149-215-191130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
411 AM CDT SAT JUL 19 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR OREGON 
COUNTY...
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 AM CDT FOR HOWELL AND 
TEXAS COUNTIES...

AT 409 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL CONTINUED TO TRACK SOUTH 
ALONG A LINE FROM LICKING TO HOUSTON TO WEST PLAINS. DOPPLER RADAR 
ESTIMATED THAT BETWEEN THREE AND FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY 
FALLEN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES OF 
RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED THROUGH 6 AM.

RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING TO 
OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...WEST 
PLAINS...HOUSTON...WILLOW SPRINGS...THAYER...RAYMONDVILLE...MOUNTAIN 
VIEW...LICKING...CABOOL...ALTON...YUKON...WILDERNESS AND WHITE 
CHURCH.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO 
HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO
FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

LAT...LON 3705 9210 3706 9226 3761 9226 3761 9176
          3743 9175 3743 9164 3689 9167 3685 9117
          3649 9112 3647 9212

$$

BOOKBINDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	53 min
Jul 18, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Morgan	60 min
Jul 18, 8:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Miller, Morgan	4 hr
Jul 18, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Maries	52 min
Jul 18, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	65 min
Jul 18, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Morgan	61 min
Jul 18, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	59 min
Jul 18, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	61 min
Jul 18, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	60 min
Jul 18, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden	44 min
Jul 18, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	80 min
Jul 19, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Pulaski	81 min
Jul 19, 12:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Miller, Phelps, Pulaski	4 hr
Jul 19, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller	75 min
Jul 19, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	75 min
Jul 19, 2:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Texas	4 hr
Jul 19, 3:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Howell	3 hr
Jul 19, 3:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell, Ozark	34 min
Jul 19, 4:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Oregon	3 hr
Jul 19, 6:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Shannon, Texas	4 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.