Alert archive / Kansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Springfield, MO
NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2007, 3:19 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Kansas. 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
- May 2, 2007, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2007, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Springfield, MO
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
County Cherokee County, KS
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 022025 FFWSGF KSC021-030215- /X.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0013.070502T2019Z-070503T0215Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 319 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT. * AT 317 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATED AROUND AN INCH OF RAINFALL HAD FALLEN OVER EASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN THE PAST HOUR. * RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE... CRESTLINE...LAWTON...AND SKIDMORE. SMALL STREAMS IN THE CRESTLINE AREA...WATER WAS REPORTED TO BE RISING OUT OF THE BANKS. ALSO WATER WAS REPORTED TO BE PONDING ON HIGHWAY 69 IN THE CRESTLINE AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN SPRINGFIELD. LAT...LON 3733 9461 3700 9461 3700 9508 3734 9508 $$ WISE
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS73 KSGF 030206 FFSSGF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 906 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 KSC021-030216- /X.EXP.KSGF.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070503T0215Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ CHEROKEE KS- 906 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 915 PM CDT FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY... EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA HAVE RECEDED OR WERE BEGINNING TO RECEDE...ENDING THE FLOOD THREAT. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN OBSERVED... PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. LAT...LON 3733 9461 3700 9461 3700 9508 3734 9508 $$ WISE
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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.