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Flash Flood Warning 261, NWS Springfield, MO

March 30, 2007Dent County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 2007, 5:13 PM CDT for Dent County, Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2007, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2007, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Springfield, MO
Area
Whole counties

County Dent County, MO

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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 2007-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 124 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2007-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 302214
FFWSGF
MOC065-310315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
513 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DENT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT.

* AT 508 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE   
WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES HAVE FALLEN OVER 
THE AFFECTED AREA SINCE 4 PM.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING
  INCLUDE...SALEM.


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.

LAT...LON 3779 9132 3771 9133 3769 9116 3759 9117
      3759 9133 3741 9132 3742 9177 3778 9177

$$

GAEDE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 6:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchSGFBarry, Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence and 4 more22 hr
Mar 30, 2:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFLaclede, Webster, Wright6 hr
Mar 30, 2:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFLaclede, Pulaski54 min
Mar 30, 3:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFPulaski5 hr
Mar 30, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFWebster39 min
Mar 30, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBenton58 min
Mar 30, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFPhelps65 min
Mar 30, 3:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFMaries, Phelps6 hr
Mar 30, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDent28 min
Mar 30, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMaries37 min
Mar 30, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFPhelps33 min
Mar 30, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFMorgan20 min
Mar 30, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarton29 min
Mar 30, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFVernon66 min
Mar 30, 6:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFBenton, Morgan6 hr
Mar 30, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFVernon25 min
Mar 30, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFCedar24 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.