Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 2004, 5:24 PM CDT for Lawrence County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2004, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lawrence County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:12 PM CDT | FLOOD | Mt Vernon, MO | STANDING WATER ON FARM ROAD 2150 SOUTH OF ROUTE 60. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 27 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 232227 FFWSGF MOC109-240330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 524 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LAWRENCE COUNTY IN MISSOURI. * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT. * AT 519 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN AN INCH AND AN INCH AND A HALF HAS OCCURRED ACROSS SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY WITH THE RECENT ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS. * 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...MOUNT VERNON...VERONA...PIERCE CITY...MILLER... MARIONVILLE...AURORA...STOTTS CITY...RED OAK...HOBERG...FREISTATT AND CHESAPEAKE. SOME STREETS WERE BEGINNING TO FLOOD IN THE FREISTATT AREA WITH THIS ROUND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN. SEVERAL MORE ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE. THIS WILL ADD TO THE RUNOFF FLOODING PROBLEM. 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. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3727 9363 3694 9364 3694 9406 3728 9405 $$ LINDENBERG
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KSGF 232322 FFSSGF MOC109-240330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 622 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR LAWRENCE COUNTY... AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL PUSHING ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL LAWRENCE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WITH AMOUNTS OF AROUND AN INCH TO INCH AND A HALF THROUGH 730 PM. THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL OCCUR ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND AND WILL LIKELY CAUSE MORE RUNOFF FLOODING TO DEVELOP. SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NEAR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... MOUNT VERNON...VERONA...PIERCE CITY...MILLER...MARIONVILLE...AURORA...STOTTS CITY...FREISTATT AND CHESAPEAKE. REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED IN THE TOWN OF FREISTATT. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3727 9363 3693 9364 3694 9406 3728 9405 $$ LINDENBERG
000 WGUS73 KSGF 240034 FFSSGF MOC109-240330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 734 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR LAWRENCE COUNTY... AT 734 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS MOVED OUT OF LAWRENCE COUNTY. HOWEVER ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE MOVING BACK INTO THE AREA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS WHICH WILL ADD TO THE RUNOFF FLOODING PROBLEM. FLOODING WAS CONTINUING ACROSS PORTIONS OF LAWRENCE COUNTY AS OF 725 PM. FLOODING WAS BEING REPORTED IN FREISTATT AND ALSO MONETT. MORE STORMS WILL PUSH NORTHEAST OUT OF OKLAHOMA TONIGHT AND INTO SOUTHERN MISSOURI OVERNIGHT AND WILL ADD TO THE FLOODING POTENTIAL. REMEMBER TO NEVER 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. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3728 9363 3693 9364 3694 9405 3728 9406 $$ LINDENBERG
000
WGUS73 KSGF 240233
FFSSGF
MOC109-240330-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
930 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR LAWRENCE
COUNTY...
AT 926 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING
ACROSS LAWRENCE COUNTY. SEVERAL INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS ALREADY
OCCURRED THIS EVENING WITH PREVIOUS THUNDERSTORMS. THE ADDITIONAL
HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED WITH THE CURRENT STORMS WILL CAUSE
ADDITIONAL RUNOFF FLOODING TO OCCUR.
AN ADDITIONAL INCH TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE IN
PORTIONS OF LAWRENCE COUNTY THROUGH 1030 PM.
EARLIER FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN THE TOWNS OF MONETT AND FREISTATT
AND THE CURRENT STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THESE AREAS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO
HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO
FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3728 9362 3723 9363 3715 9363 3702 9364
3694 9364 3695 9406 3728 9406
$$
LINDENBERGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Christian | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Stone | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Taney | 61 min |
| Apr 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper | 59 min |
| Apr 22, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 53 min |
| Apr 22, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | McDonald | 61 min |
| Apr 22, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Douglas | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Ozark | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas | 60 min |
| Apr 22, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Howell | 79 min |
| Apr 22, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Ozark | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Oregon | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 6:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 8:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, McDonald | 53 min |
| Apr 23, 10:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 10:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry, Newton | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Stone | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Lawrence | 41 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.