Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 72, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 2004, 11:00 AM CDT for Benton 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2004, 11:00 AM CDT (16:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Benton County, MO
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 241603 FFWSGF MOC015-242200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1100 AM CDT TUE AUG 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI. * UNTIL 500 PM CDT. * AT 1058 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE MOVING INTO BENTON COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS BENTON COUNTY. * SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...COLE CAMP...LINCOLN...WARSAW...CROCKERVILLE... EDMONSON... EDWARDS...FRISTOE...HASTAIN...KNOBBY...LAKEVIEW HEIGHTS...PALO PINTO AND WHITAKERVILLE. 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. $$ LINDENBERG
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KSGF 241642 FFSSGF MOC015-141-242215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1141 AM CDT TUE AUG 24 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR BENTON COUNTY AND 515 PM FOR MORGAN COUNTY... AT 1134 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF BENTON AND MORGAN COUNTIES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN INCH TO INCH AND A HALF HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED AS THIS BAND OF HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. THIS HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND FROM YESTERDAYS HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING. THIS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY LEAD TO SOME QUICK RUNOFF FLOODING. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE BEFORE THE RAIN ENDS THIS AFTERNOON. && MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ LINDENBERG
000 WGUS73 KSGF 241829 FFSSGF MOC015-141-185-242230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 128 PM CDT TUE AUG 24 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR BENTON COUNTY...AND 515 PM FOR ST. CLAIR...AND MORGAN COUNTIES... AT 123 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS CONTINUING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN ONE AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED ACROSS THE AREA...WHICH IS ON TOP OF ALREADY SATURATED GROUND FROM YESTERDAYS RAINFALL. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN BENTON COUNTY REPORTED FLOODING ACROSS ZODIAC ROAD NEAR HIGHWAY AA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO AN INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE WARNED AREAS WHICH WILL ADD TO THE POTENTIAL OF RUNOFF FLOODING. && 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. $$ LINDENBERG
000 WGUS73 KSGF 242016 FFSSGF MOC015-141-242215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 316 PM CDT TUE AUG 24 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR BENTON COUNTY AND 515 PM FOR MORGAN COUNTY... AT 307 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL HAVE ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. HOWEVER RUNOFF FLOODING CONTINUED OVER PORTIONS BENTON AND MORGAN COUNTY DUE TO THE PREVIOUS HEAVY RAIN. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED FLOODING NEAR THE TOWN OF HASTAIN AND ALSO SOME MINOR FLOODING CONTINUING IN VERSAILLES. WITH THE RAIN ENDING...THE RUNOFF FLOODING SHOULD RECEDE DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. && DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ LINDENBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 11:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Morgan | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 12:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 5 hr |
| Aug 24, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Hickory | 27 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.