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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Springfield, MO

September 14, 2003Texas County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 2003, 12:50 AM CDT for Texas 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: Sep 14, 2003, 12:50 AM CDT (05:50 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 2003, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Texas County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:53 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 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 140551
FFWSGF
MOC215-140900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1250 AM CDT SUN SEP 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT.

* AT 1242 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT   
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WAS PRODUCING FLOODING FOUR MILES SOUTH OF 
HOUSTON. ONE FOOT OF WATER WAS FLOWING ACROSS Z HIGHWAY NEAR 
HAMILTON CREEK.

* ALTHOUGH RAINFALL HAS ENDED IN THE WARNING AREA...EXCESSIVE RUNOFF 
FROM RAINFALL EARLIER TONIGHT WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE LOCALIZED 
FLASH FLOODING OVER MUCH OF TEXAS COUNTY.  

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.

LAT...LON 3751 9179 3708 9181 3710 9224 3749 9217

$$

TERRY

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS73 KSGF 140728
FFSSGF
MOC215-140900-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
225 AM CDT SUN SEP 14 2003

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 AM CDT FOR TEXAS COUNTY...

AT 220 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT 
FLOODING CONTINUED ON HIGHWAY Z FOUR MILES SOUTH OF HOUSTON. 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THREE TO SIX 
INCHES OF RAIN FELL FROM CABOOL TO HOUSTON TO LICKING SATURDAY 
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING 
AREAS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND SMALL STREAMS...ESPECIALLY AROUND 
HAMILTON CREEK...AND ON HIGHWAY Z AND ROUTE F.

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 3751 9179 3708 9181 3710 9224 3749 9217

$$

TERRY

000 
WGUS73 KSGF 140858
FFSSGF
MOC215-140930-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
358 AM CDT SUN SEP 14 2003

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR TEXAS COUNTY HAS 
BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...

EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN EARLIER SATURDAY EVENING 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 3756 9185 3712 9194 3712 9226 3756 9221

$$

TERRY

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.