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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Springfield, MO

July 4, 2004McDonald County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2004, 7:47 AM CDT for McDonald 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: Jul 4, 2004, 7:47 AM CDT (12:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2004, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McDonald County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:48 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 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 60 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: 1470 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1244 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 041248
FFWSGF
MOC119-041845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
747 AM CDT SUN JUL 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MCDONALD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI.

* UNTIL 145 PM CDT.

* AT 744 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.     
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER  
  MCDONALD COUNTY SINCE 7 AM...WITH AN ADDITIONAL ONE INCH POSSIBLE  
  BEFORE IT TAPERS OFF THIS MORNING.  

* 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...ANDERSON...GOODMAN...LANAGAN...NOEL...PINEVILLE...SOUTH
  WEST CITY...POWELL AND ROCKY COMFORT.

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 3678 9462 3676 9407 3650 9410 3649 9462

$$

JLT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 6:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	66 min
Jul 4, 7:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	McDonald	71 min
Jul 4, 7:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	6 hr
Jul 4, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence	67 min
Jul 4, 8:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry	6 hr
Jul 4, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone	63 min
Jul 4, 8:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	6 hr
Jul 4, 8:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Taney	74 min
Jul 4, 9:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	65 min
Jul 4, 9:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	54 min
Jul 4, 10:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Howell	57 min
Jul 4, 10:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	45 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.