Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jan 4, 2005, 3:48 PM CST for Vernon County, Missouri; Bourbon County, Kansas. 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
- Jan 4, 2005, 3:48 PM CST (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2005, 10:05 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bourbon County, KS, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 042150 FFWSGF KSC011-MOC217-050405- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 348 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BOURBON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS. VERNON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI. * UNTIL 1005 PM CST. * AT 346 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED ONE TO TWO INCHES HAD FALLEN SINCE 2 PM. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. 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 3803 9415 3768 9414 3769 9500 3800 9500 $$ FOSTER
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KSGF 050000 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 600 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005 MOC015-141-050400- MORGAN MO-BENTON MO- 600 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR BENTON AND MORGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CST... AT 555 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN EXPANDING AREA OF RAINFALL OVER EASTERN KANSAS, EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI SINCE 5 PM. THIS AREA WILL SPREAD ACROSS SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS EVENING CAUSING AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAINFALL. THIS WILL AGGRAVATE THE ALREADY DETERIORATING FLOODING CONDITIONS OVER THE AREA FROM THIS AFTERNOON. RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINFALL, IN ADDITIONAL TO MORE RAINFALL THIS EVENING WILL CAUSE FLOODING TO OCCUR. BECAUSE OF THE HILLY TERRAIN OF THE OZARKS...THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. $$ JLT
000 WGUS73 KSGF 050120 RRA FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 715 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005 KSC011-MOC217-050400- BOURBON KS-VERNON MO- 715 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR BOURBON AND VERNON COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CST... AT 710 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. EARLIER RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE CAUSED FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR OVER THE WARNED AREA AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVERNIGHT WILL AGGRAVATE THE ALREADY DETERIORATING FLOODING SITUATION. SINCE 630 PM, AN ENHANCED AREA OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THIS AREA WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI THIS EVENING AND LIKELY INCREASE THE RAINFALL RATES. THE PUBLIC REPORTED THAT HIGHWAY J, CROSSING HIGHWAY 64 NEAR PITTSBURG, IS FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF 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. $$ JLT
000 WGUS73 KSGF 050123 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 725 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005 KSC011-MOC217-050400- BOURBON KS-VERNON MO- 725 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR BOURBON AND VERNON COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CST... AT 720 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. EARLIER RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE CAUSED FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR OVER THE WARNED AREA AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVERNIGHT WILL AGGRAVATE THE ALREADY DETERIORATING FLOODING SITUATION. SINCE 630 PM, AN ENHANCED AREA OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THIS AREA WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST MISSOURI THIS EVENING AND LIKELY INCREASE THE RAINFALL RATES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ JLT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 3:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald | 44 min |
| Jan 4, 10:07 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Greene, Oregon, Shannon, Texas | 315 days |
| Jan 4, 10:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Barry, Christian, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Lawrence and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 4:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 4:47 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar, Hickory, St. Clair | 5 hr |
| Jan 4, 5:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Missouri, 2005Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
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.