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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Springfield, MO

April 23, 2004Lawrence County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 2004, 10:27 PM CDT for Lawrence 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: Apr 23, 2004, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2004, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 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 03:29 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 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.

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: 981 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 240327
FFWSGF
MOC109-240900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1027 PM CDT FRI APR 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 AM CDT.

* AT 1026 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 
  INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS
  LAWRENCE COUNTY.  SEVERAL INCHES OF RAINFALL FROM EARLIER THIS
  EVENING HAS BROUGHT RUNOFF FLOODING TO THE FREISTATT AND MONETT
  AREAS...AND NUMEROUS LOW WATER CROSSINGS WERE IN FLOOD 
  IN RURAL AREAS OF LAWRENCE COUNTY.

* 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.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT WILL ADD TO THE RUNOFF FLOODING 
PROBLEM ACROSS THE 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.

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 9364 3694 9363 3693 9406 3729 9406

$$

LINDENBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Newton	39 min
Apr 23, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald	62 min
Apr 23, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	57 min
Apr 23, 7:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Stone	6 hr
Apr 23, 8:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper, Newton	6 hr
Apr 23, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Jasper	82 min
Apr 23, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	34 min
Apr 23, 10:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barton	6 hr
Apr 23, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dade	76 min
Apr 23, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene	78 min
Apr 24, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	71 min
Apr 24, 12:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Taney	6 hr
Apr 24, 2:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Ozark	6 hr
Apr 24, 4:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Howell	6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.