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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Springfield, MO

January 4, 2005Benton County, Morgan County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jan 4, 2005, 4:00 PM CST for Benton County, Morgan County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 4, 2005, 4:00 PM CST (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Jan 4, 2005, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Benton County, MO, Morgan County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 4, 7:30 PM CST	FLASH FLOOD	3 Nw Gravois Mills, MO	* 2 INJ * WATER RESCUE AT RITCHEY RD 1/2 MILE FROM MM. BOTH OCCUPANTS OF VEHICLE HAD MINOR INJURIES WITH HYPOTHERMIA.
Jan 4, 7:30 PM CST	FLASH FLOOD	3 Nw Gravois Mills, MO	WATER RESCUE AT RITCHEY RD 1/2MI FROM MM. BOTH OCCUPANTS OF VEHICLE HAD MINOR INJURIES WITH HYPOTHERMIA.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 042202
FFWSGF
MOC015-141-050400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
400 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BENTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI.
  MORGAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI.

* UNTIL 1000 PM CST.

* AT 355 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
  AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR   
  ESTIMATED ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 1 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 3853 9277 3829 9275 3831 9310 3811 9314
      3811 9348 3848 9349 3850 9308 3866 9298

$$

FOSTER

2 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 050118
FFSSGF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
715 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005

MOC015-141-050400-
MORGAN MO-BENTON MO-
715 PM CST TUE JAN 4 2005

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR BENTON AND MORGAN COUNTIES UNTIL
1000 PM CST...

AT 708 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, AND CENTRAL 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, 3:48 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	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, 2005 Every 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.