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Flash Flood Warning 72, NWS Springfield, MO

June 1, 2007Vernon County, Missouri

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2007, 8:51 PM CDT for Vernon County, Missouri. 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: Jun 1, 2007, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2007, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Flood severity: None

County Vernon County, MO

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 797 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1405 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 020152
FFWSGF
MOC217-020745-
/X.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0072.070602T0151Z-070602T0745Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
851 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  VERNON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 245 AM CDT.

* AT 850 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE      
  WARNED AREA. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS     
  FALLEN OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
  NEVADA AND WALKER.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF A QUARTER OF AN AN INCH TO HALF AN 
INCH WITH LOCALLY HEAVIER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. DO
NOT ENTER THE WATER. TURN AROUND AND MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN
WATER BEGINS RISING.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
SPRINGFIELD.

LAT...LON 3791 9409 3763 9411 3768 9459 3791 9462

$$

WISE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS73 KSGF 020554
FFSSGF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
1252 AM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007

MOC217-020602-
/X.CAN.KSGF.FF.W.0072.000000T0000Z-070602T0745Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
VERNON MO-
1252 AM CDT SAT JUN 2 2007

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHERN VERNON
COUNTY...

HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. HOWEVER...STREAMS AND 
CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA CONTINUE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. THE FLASH 
FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN REPLACED BY AN AREAL FLOOD WARNING THAT WILL 
CONTINUE THROUGH 1245 PM SATURDAY. IF FLOODING HAS BEEN 
OBSERVED...PLEASE REPORT IT TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

LAT...LON 3791 9409 3763 9411 3768 9459 3791 9462

$$

CLAYCOMB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Polk	53 min
Jun 1, 7:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Greene	6 hr
Jun 1, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Lawrence	37 min
Jun 1, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Wright	23 min
Jun 1, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Jasper	67 min
Jun 1, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry	53 min
Jun 1, 7:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry	6 hr
Jun 1, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Stone, Taney	40 min
Jun 1, 8:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper	6 hr
Jun 1, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian	55 min
Jun 1, 10:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Webster, Wright	6 hr
Jun 2, 5:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Jasper	6 hr
Jun 2, 6:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Lawrence	6 hr
Jun 2, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Ozark	55 min
Jun 2, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	41 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.