Alert archive / Missouri / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2005, 3:41 PM CDT for Greene 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
- Aug 23, 2005, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2005, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greene County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 6:10 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN | 2 Sw Bassville, MO | 4.00 INCHES OF RAIN IN 2 HOURS EAST OF FELLOW LAKE |
| Aug 23, 6:15 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN | 5 Sw Fair Grove, MO | 3.30 INCHES OF RAIN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 506 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KSGF 232041 FFWSGF MOC077-240230- /O.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0001.050823T2036Z-050824T0230Z/ /0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 341 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. * UNTIL 930 PM CDT. * AT 335 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS APPROACHING 2 INCHES WITHIN THE PAST HOUR ACROSS NORTHEASTERN SECTIONS OF GREENE 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...FAIR GROVE...BASSVILLE AND EBENEZER. IN ADDITION...RISING WATER AND FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS LOW WATER CROSSINGS AT ROUTE CC ON KINGS BRANCH...ROUTE CC ON THE LITTLE POMME DE TERRE...AND NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF ROUTE E AND FARM ROAD 235. 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 3741 9308 3730 9309 3731 9339 3742 9338 $$ SAW
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 23, 2:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 2:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 208 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005 ...DISCUSSION... SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT)... SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI MAINLY ASSOCIATED WITH WEAK ISENTROPIC LIFT ALONG THE 305-310K SURFACE. SOME MOISTURE POOLING AND WEEK 850MB CONVERGENCE EVIDENT AS AN MCV CONTINUES TO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD INTO WESTERN MO. THIS ALONG WITH 1400-1600 J/KG...LITTLE NO CIN...PW OF 1.75 INCHES AND SOME INSTABILITY ALOFT SHOULD PROVIDE ENOUGH ENERGY TO ALLOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO REMAIN THROUGH TONIGHT. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AS CAPE IS RATHER SKINNY AND HIGH 0 TO -20C HEIGHTS MAKE THE HAIL THREAT MINIMAL AT BEST. DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF ANYTHING IN THE AREA TO PRODUCE MORE THAN ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS ALONG THE MO/KS LINE...THOUGH AN OUTSIDE CHANCE OF A RUMBLE OF THUNDER IS POSSIBLE SO KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOW TO MID LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS RATHER HIGH AND WILL KEEP THE SKY MOSTLY CLOUDY THROUGH THE DAY. ANOTHER UPPER 500MB AND ASSOCIATED 250MB JET STREAK ACROSS IOWA SHOULD PROVIDE ENOUGH TO ALLOW SOME SHOWERS AND STORMS TO PUSH INTO THE WESTERN HALF OF THE AREA THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. HATCH EXTENDED PERIODS (THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)... LOOKS UNSETTLED FOR MUCH OF THIS TIME PERIOD. PERIOD STARTS WITH A VIGOROUS UPPER LOW ALONG SASKATCHEWAN/MONTANA BORDER THAT WILL DRIFT SLOWLY EAST-NORTHEAST WHILE THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE REMAINS SUPPRESSED FROM NORTHERN MEXICO INTO THE GULF COAST STATES. THIS LEAVES THE AREA UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HARD TO PLACE SHORTWAVES MOVING EAST THROUGH THE AREA. ETA/GFS/ECMWF PLACE A SURFACE LOW OVER WESTERN KS 12Z THURSDAY WITH A VEERING 20-25KT SOUTHWESTERLY 850MB LOW LEVEL FLOW AND VERY DEEP MOISTURE...ESPECIALLY OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE NAM AND GFS PROG PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES NEAR 2.10 INCHES AT KSGF 12Z-18Z THURSDAY. THE NAM PLACES A 300/250MB JET STREAK OVER SE NEB/IA WITH ENHANCED LIFT OVER EASTERN KS/WESTERN MO IN THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF THE JET. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING MCS IN OR NORTHWEST OF THE FORECAST AREA THU MORNING. HAVE BUMPED UP POPS TO REFLECT THIS...AND MAY STILL MAKE FURTHER ADJUSTMENTS PENDING COORDINATION. TAIL END OF A COLD FRONT COMING FROM THE AFOREMENTIONED CANADIAN STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA FRIDAY-SATURDAY. FRONT WILL LIKELY STALL NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA...AND WITH THE CONTINUED ACTIVE PATTERN OF SHORTWAVES MOVING THROUGH THE REGION...MAINTAINED AT LEAST SLIGHT RAIN CHANCES THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. ANOTHER STRONG STORM MOVES INTO BRITISH COLUMBIA SUNDAY WITH THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE BUILDING OVER THE AREA SOMEWHAT EARLY NEXT WEEK. GFS STILL INDICATES WEAK SHORTWAVES EMBEDDED IN THE WEAK UPPER FLOW...SO SLIGHT RAIN CHANCES ARE WARRANTED. TEMPERATURES ARE GENERALLY NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH MUCH OF THIS TIME. DSA && .AVIATION... FOR 18Z TAFS...OVERCAST SKIES AT BOTH SITES WILL BE THE RULE FOR THE EARLY PART OF FORECAST PERIOD. METAR REPORTS ARE FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH CIGS NEAR 2000FT...SO WILL KEEP MVFR CEILINGS FOR JLN AND SGF FOR THE FIRST FEW HOURS OF THE PERIOD. CIGS ARE ALREADY ON THE RISE NEAR JLN AND EXPECTED TO BEGIN RISING AT SGF SHORTLY. BY 21Z BOTH SITES ARE EXPECTED TO EXPERIENCE CEILINGS WITHIN THE VFR CATEGORY. SHOWERS HAVE PUSHED OUT OF JLN AREA...AND REGIONAL RADAR MOSAIC IS NOT DEPICTING ANY SIGNIFICANT REDEVELOPMENT IN KANSAS OR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA ASSOCIATED WITH THE APPROACHING MCV. SPOTTY RAIN SHOWERS ARE STILL COMMON NEAR SPRINGFIELD-BRANSON AIRPORT...SO HAVE INCLUDED VCSH FOR SGF. AFTER 03Z...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR JLN AND SGF AREAS FOR ADDITIONAL SHOWER DEVELOPMENT AND LINGERING OVC CONDITIONS LATER IN THE PERIOD. SCHULTZ && SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .MO...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MORGAN AND MILLER UNTIL 830 PM. .KS...NONE. SGF TEAM
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 23, 1:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 106 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-241815- BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON- ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS- LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON- LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE- TANEY-OZARK-OREGON- 106 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED: THUNDERSTORMS WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND ISOLATED WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. AREAS AFFECTED AND TIMING: THE MISSOURI OZARKS TODAY INTO THIS EVENING MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF AN APPLETON CITY TO CASSVILLE LINE. DISCUSSION: SHOWERS OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI MAINLY ASSOCIATED WITH WEAK LIFT...SOME MOISTURE POOLING AND WEEK MID LEVEL CONVERGENCE. THIS WILL INTERACT THIS AFTERNOON WITH MID LEVEL CIRCULATION FROM MORNING THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH EAST KANSAS AND INCREASING INSTABILITY TO PROVIDE ENOUGH ENERGY TO ALLOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. AN ACTIVE PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK AS UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVES CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION PROVIDING ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND LIFT TO ALLOW A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND INTO THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE) HATCH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 23, 9:54 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
0954 AM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1035 PM FLOOD SMALLETT 36.85N 92.72W
08/22/2005 DOUGLAS MO EMERGENCY MNGR
4.00 INCHES OF RAIN CAUSED FLOODING
1035 PM FLOOD GOODHOPE 36.92N 92.80W
08/22/2005 DOUGLAS MO EMERGENCY MNGR
4.00 INCHES OF RAIN CAUSED FLOODING
SCHULTZThe office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 4:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Texas | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Howell, Ozark | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Webster | 6 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.