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Flood Watch 4, NWS Springfield, MO

November 29, 200617 counties in Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flood watch at Nov 29, 2006, 9:41 AM CST for 17 counties in Missouri. It took effect at Nov 29, 2006, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 29, 2006, 9:41 AM CST (15:41 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 29, 2006, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Nov 30, 2006, 6:00 PM CST
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Flood severity
None

Counties Christian County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Maries County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2006-11-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 411 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2006-11-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 404 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
411 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
780 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
404 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
397 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Nov 29, 5:40 AM CST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 29, 5:40 AM CST, 4 hours 1 minute before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 29, 9:08 AM CST, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
908 AM CST WED NOV 29 2006

MOZ055-056-291545-
BENTON-MORGAN-
908 AM CST WED NOV 29 2006

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR NORTHEAST BENTON AND NORTHERN
MORGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 945 AM CST...

AT 908 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR COLE CAMP...OR 16 MILES WEST OF
VERSAILLES...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...AS IT TRACKS INTO
NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY.

TERRY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 29, 4:11 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningSGFBarry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 28 more56 hr
Nov 29, 2:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFNewton34 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.