Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2004, 12:52 PM CDT for Miller 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
- Aug 2, 2004, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Miller County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS53 KSGF 021754
FFWSGF
MOC131-022345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1252 PM CDT MON AUG 2 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
MILLER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI.
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT.
* AT 1249 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT NEARLY THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS AFFECTED
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MILLER COUNTY THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON.
* 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...ELDON...IBERIA...ST. ELIZABETH...TUSCUMBIA...AURORA
SPRINGS...BAGNELL...BRUMLEY...ETTERVILLE...MARYS HOME...OLEAN...
SAINT ELIZABETH AND ULMAN.
IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF
SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY.
LAT...LON 3842 9261 3834 9264 3832 9267 3805 9252
3805 9222 3832 9222 3833 9245 3842 9243
$$
GAEDE1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KSGF 021954 FFSSGF MOC131-022345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 253 PM CDT MON AUG 2 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR MILLER COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED... PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. $$ GAEDE
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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.