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Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Springfield, MO

June 10, 2007Bourbon County, Kansas

NWS Springfield, MO issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2007, 8:44 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 9 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2007, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2007, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Springfield, MO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Flood severity: None

County Bourbon County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 11, 1:57 AM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	2 E Mapleton, KS	JCT 31 AND 7 NEAR MAPLETON CLOSED DUE TO BEING FLOODED

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 127 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 110145
FFWSGF
KSC011-110800-
/X.NEW.KSGF.FF.W.0089.070611T0144Z-070611T0800Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
844 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BOURBON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 300 AM CDT MONDAY.

* AT 838 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF
  SOUTHEAST KANSAS.  RAINS CONDUCIVE OF FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR
  IN BOURBON COUNTY.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...
  FORT SCOTT...FULTON...REDFIELD AND UNIONTOWN.

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 3802 9462 3799 9462 3797 9464 3767 9463
      3767 9468 3768 9469 3768 9504 3802 9505

$$

CRAMER

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS53 KSGF 110704
FFWSGF
KSC011-111100-
/X.EXT.KSGF.FF.W.0089.000000T0000Z-070611T1100Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
201 AM CDT MON JUN 11 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS EXTENDED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BOURBON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT.

* AT 158 AM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT
  EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WAS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING ACROSS THE         
  WARNED AREA. JCT 31 AND 7 EAST OF MAPLETON WAS FLOODED AND CLOSED. 

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IS CAUSING FLASH FLOODING. SOME
  LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...FORT
  SCOTT...FULTON...REDFIELD AND UNIONTOWN.

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

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES...
DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...
EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT OR IN A VEHICLE.

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

LAT...LON 3802 9462 3799 9462 3797 9464 3767 9463
      3767 9468 3768 9469 3768 9504 3802 9505

$$

WISE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee	73 min
Jun 10, 11:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee	6 hr
Jun 11, 5:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	6 hr
Jun 11, 11:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2007 Every flash flood warning in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.