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Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Sep 18, 2005, 6:54 AM CDT for Dent County, Phelps County, Missouri. It was in force for 4 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
- Sep 18, 2005, 6:54 AM CDT (11:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2005, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dent County, MO, Phelps County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:53 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 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 181154 FFWSGF MOC065-161-181600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 654 AM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DENT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI. PHELPS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI. * UNTIL 1100 AM CDT. * AT 623 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT ONE TO LOCALLY OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALREADY ACROSS FAR NORTHERN DENT AND SOUTHERN PHELPS COUNTIES. ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING PRODUCING AN ADDITIONAL HALF INCH TO LOCALLY INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...DOOLITTLE...NEWBURG...SALEM...ANUTT...BANGERT...BOSS... EDGAR SPRINGS...HOWES...JEROME...LAKE SPRING...LECOMA AND LENOX. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD LAT...LON 3803 9202 3778 9139 3762 9113 3762 9200 $$ IZZI
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KSGF 181245 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 745 AM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005 MOC065-161-181600- PHELPS MO-DENT MO- 745 AM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR DENT AND PHELPS COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 AM CDT... AT 741 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED IN EXCESS OF THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN ALONG THE BORDER OF PHELPS AND DENT COUNTIES EARLY THIS MORNING. SEVERAL MORE ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING COULD BRING ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF AN INCH. SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...DOOLITTLE...NEWBURG...SALEM...ANUTT...BANGERT...BOSS... EDGAR SPRINGS...HOWES...JEROME...LAKE SPRING...LECOMA...LENOX AND SLIGO. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN LAT...LON 3803 9202 3778 9139 3762 9113 3762 9200 $$ SAW
000 WGUS73 KSGF 181557 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1056 AM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005 MOC065-161-181605- PHELPS MO-DENT MO- 1056 AM CDT SUN SEP 18 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR DENT AND PHELPS COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... ONLY LIGHT SHOWERS REMAIN...AND RUNOFF HAS DIMINISHED ACROSS THE AREA. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 11 AM. 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. LAT...LON 3803 9202 3778 9139 3762 9113 3762 9200 $$ SAW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 4:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 6 hr |
| Sep 18, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barton, Cedar, Dade, Vernon | 63 min |
| Sep 18, 5:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene, Polk | 53 min |
| Sep 18, 6:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas | 40 min |
| Sep 18, 6:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Vernon | 6 hr |
| Sep 18, 7:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | St. Clair | 3 hr |
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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.