Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Nov 29, 2004, 10:16 AM CST for Webster 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 29, 2004, 10:16 AM CST (16:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 29, 2004, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Webster County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:20 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 428 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 458 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 519 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 291616 FFWSGF MOC225-292200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1016 AM CST MON NOV 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WEBSTER COUNTY IN MISSOURI. * UNTIL 400 PM CST. * AT 909 AM CST...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WAS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING ON HIGHWAY W NEAR VINYARD WHERE A BRIDGE WAS WASHED OUT WITH DEEP WATER SWIFTLY FLOWING OVER IT. * EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WAS CAUSING FLASH FLOODING IN CENTRAL WEBSTER COUNTY. FLOODING IS LIKELY OCCURRING ON OTHER SMALL STREAMS IN CREEKS IN WEBSTER COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER IS COVERING THE ROADWAY. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROADWAY TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3747 9270 3708 9270 3710 9308 3749 9306 $$ IZZI
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KSGF 291754 FFSSGF MOC225-292200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1154 AM CST MON NOV 29 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 PM CST FOR WEBSTER COUNTY... AT 1146 AM CST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE THAT THE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED. MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS AND ARE STILL RUNNING HIGH AND SOME ARE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. WATER SHOULD CONTINUE TO RECEDED THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER PERSONS TRAVELING IN WEBSTER COUNTY MAY STILL ENCOUNTER FLOODED ROADWAYS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY...IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROADWAY OR LOW WATER CROSSING TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN $$ IZZI
000 WGUS73 KSGF 292142 FFSSGF MOC225-292200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 339 PM CST MON NOV 29 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR WEBSTER COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 4 PM... EARLY RAINFALL THAT CAUSED FLASH FLOODING NEAR MARSHFIELD HAS ENDED. NO ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT WHICH MAY AGGRAVATE THE ALREADY SWOLLEN STREAMS AND CREEKS. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL INDICATED THAT NO FURTHER FLOODING EXISTED IN WEBSTER COUNTY AS OF 340 PM. && IF FLOODING WAS OBSERVED...PLEASE REPORT THIS INFORMATION TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY SO THAT THEY CAN RELAY THIS INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. $$ JLT
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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.