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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Springfield, MO

June 6, 20066 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood watch at Jun 6, 2006, 4:46 AM CDT for 6 counties in Missouri; Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2006, 4:46 AM CDT (09:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2006, 9:40 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Flood severity: None

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Stone County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 40 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: 519 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1293 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Jun 6, 4:00 AM CDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 4:00 AM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 12:20 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 11:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1115 PM CDT MON JUN 05 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1100 PM     FLASH FLOOD      2 E WALKER              37.90N 94.20W
06/05/2006                   VERNON             MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WATER OVER EE...IMPASSABLE IN SEVERAL SPOTS.

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 6, 12:12 AM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1212 AM CDT TUE JUN 06 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1204 AM     HAIL             LOCKWOOD                37.39N 93.95W
06/05/2006  E0.75 INCH       DADE               MO   LAW ENFORCEMENT

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Springfield, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Vernon	38 min
Jun 5, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar	45 min
Jun 5, 11:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Vernon	6 hr
Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barton, Dade	47 min
Jun 6, 6:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, Barton, Lawrence, Vernon	7 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Missouri, 2006 Flash Flood Watches in Kansas, 2006 Every flash flood watch in 2006

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.