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Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2005, 5:04 PM CDT for Howell County, Ozark County, Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr. 1 report 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, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Howell County, MO, Ozark County, MO
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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, 6:30 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN | 5 S Gainesville, MO | 3.50 INCHES OF RAIN ON T HIGHWAY SOUTH OF GAINESVILLE |
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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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 232204 FFWSGF MOC091-153-240400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 504 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HOWELL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. OZARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT. * AT 455 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES HAD FALLEN WITHIN THE PAST HOUR ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF OZARK COUNTY...AND STORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS. IN ADDITION...OTHER STORMS PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF AN INCH AND A HALF PER HOUR WERE EXPANDING IN COVERAGE ACROSS SOUTHERN HOWELL 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...BAKERSFIELD...GAINESVILLE...BRANDSVILLE...CAULFIELD... HARDENVILLE...ISABELLA...LANTON...LONG RUN...MOODY...PONTIAC... SOUTH FORK AND SUNDOWN. 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 3668 9169 3650 9170 3651 9277 3668 9277 $$ SAW
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS73 KSGF 232300 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 559 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005 MOC091-153-240400- HOWELL MO-OZARK MO- 559 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR HOWELL AND OZARK COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 550 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS APPROACHING THREE INCHES IN THE PAST HOUR AND A HALF ACROSS FAR SOUTH CENTRAL OZARK COUNTY BETWEEN PONTIAC AND UDALL. IN ADDITION...IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES HAD BEEN ESTIMATED BETWEEN MOODY AND LANTON ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN HOWELL COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING JUST TO THE SOUTHWEST OF BAKERSFIELD WITH THE REMAINING LINE OF STORMS DECREASING IN INTENSITY. HOWEVER...RUNOFF FROM THE EARLIER EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE: BAKERSFIELD...GAINESVILLE...BRANDSVILLE...CAULFIELD ... HARDENVILLE...ISABELLA...LANTON...LONG RUN...MOODY...SOUTH FORK...SUNDOWN...TECUMSEH...THEODOSIA...UDALL...WILLHOIT AND ZANONI. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN LAT...LON 3668 9169 3650 9170 3651 9277 3668 9277 $$ SAW
000 WGUS73 KSGF 240053 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 753 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005 MOC091-153-240400- HOWELL MO-OZARK MO- 753 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR HOWELL AND OZARK COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... WHILE MUCH OF THE RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO THREE AND A HALF INCHES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THIS RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF OZARK AND HOWELL COUNTIES. 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 3668 9169 3650 9170 3651 9277 3668 9277 $$ SAW
000 WGUS73 KSGF 240407 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1107 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005 MOC091-153-240417- HOWELL MO-OZARK MO- 1107 PM CDT TUE AUG 23 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR HOWELL AND OZARK COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED... PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. LAT...LON 3668 9169 3650 9170 3651 9277 3668 9277 $$ FOSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 3:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Greene | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 4:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Texas | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Webster | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.