Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 2005, 6:54 PM CDT for Wright 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
- Aug 21, 2005, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2005, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wright County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 775 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 212354 FFWSGF MOC229-220600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 654 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WRIGHT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. * UNTIL 100 AM CDT. * AT 650 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN NORTHERN PORTIONS OF WRIGHT COUNTY. * 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...HARTVILLE...DAWSON...GRAFF...GROVESPRING...MANES AND ODIN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. 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 3747 9226 3721 9226 3721 9268 3748 9269 $$ LINDENBERG
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KSGF 220015 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 715 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 2005 MOC229-220600- WRIGHT MO- 715 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 2005 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WRIGHT COUNTY UNTIL 100 AM CDT... AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY OCCURRED IN PORTIONS OF WRIGHT COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL HALF INCH TO INCH AND A HALF OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE ADDING TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF FLASH FLOODING. SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...HARTVILLE...DAWSON...GRAFF...GROVESPRING...MANES AND ODIN. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN LAT...LON 3747 9226 3721 9226 3721 9268 3748 9269 $$ LINDENBERG
000 WGUS73 KSGF 220250 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 950 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 2005 MOC229-220600- WRIGHT MO- 950 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 2005 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WRIGHT COUNTY UNTIL 100 AM CDT... ALTHOUGH THE RAIN HAD ENDED...RUNOFF FROM THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE. THIS RUNOFF WILL RESULT IN FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...COUNTY ROADS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 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. LAT...LON 3747 9226 3721 9226 3721 9268 3748 9269 $$ FOSTER
000
WGUS73 KSGF 220440
FFSSGF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1140 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 2005
MOC105-225-220450-
LACLEDE MO-WEBSTER MO-
1140 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 2005
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR LACLEDE AND WEBSTER
COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A FLOOD WARNING THAT
WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 AM MONDAY.
IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED...PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
LAT...LON 3769 9238 3748 9247 3748 9269 3726 9270
3726 9307 3749 9306 3749 9286 3760 9277
$$
FOSTERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone, Taney | 53 min |
| Aug 21, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Greene | 68 min |
| Aug 21, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 64 min |
| Aug 21, 5:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene | 6 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Polk | 63 min |
| Aug 21, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Laclede, Wright | 71 min |
| Aug 21, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski, Texas | 65 min |
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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.