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Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Springfield, MO

November 1, 2004McDonald County, Newton County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Nov 1, 2004, 1:22 AM CST for McDonald County, Newton 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: Nov 1, 2004, 1:22 AM CST (07:22 UTC)
Expired: Nov 1, 2004, 7:15 AM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:24 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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 43 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 366 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 010726
FFWSGF
MOC119-145-011315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
122 AM CST MON NOV 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 AM CST.

* AT 119 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.     
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT TWO TO TWO AND ONE HALF INCHES OF     
  RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE WARNING AREA. ADDTIONAL THUNDERSTORMS    
  MOVING NORTHEAST FROM EASTERN OKLAHOMA WILL AFFECT THE AREA OVER   
  THE NEXT 2 TO 3 HOURS PRODUCING ANOTHER TWO TO THREE INCHES OF     
  RAINFALL IN SOME AREAS. 

* 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...NEOSHO...ANDERSON...DIAMOND...GOODMAN...GRANBY...
  LANAGAN...NOEL...PINEVILLE...NEWTONIA...POWELL...RITCHEY AND STARK
  CITY.

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 3702 9410 3653 9415 3652 9457 3701 9445

$$

DSA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 1, 1:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence	6 hr
Nov 1, 2:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Polk	6 hr
Nov 1, 3:24 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Barton, Benton, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 11 more	6 hr
Nov 1, 4:31 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden	5 hr
Nov 1, 5:24 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Laclede, Miller, Taney, Webster	4 hr
Nov 1, 5:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Douglas, Ozark, Wright	4 hr
Nov 1, 7:11 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Maries, Phelps, Pulaski, Texas	2 hr
Nov 1, 9:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Dent	26 min
Nov 1, 9:27 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dent, Douglas, Howell, Maries, Oregon, Ozark and 5 more	6 hr

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.